FTP, name this author who chronicled the travails of Jack, Ralph, and Piggy after their plane crashed on a deserted island in Lord of the Flies.
He answered questions about his most famous work in the essay "Fable," which is found in a work which also contains "Billy the Kid" and the title essay about Thermopylae, "The Hot Gates."  He wrote about Rick L. Tucker, who attempts to become Wilfred Barclay's official biographer in his "The Paper Men."  One of this man's title characters manned The Wildebeest and believed he had kicked off his seaboots, but in an ending similar to An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, it is revealed that he drowned almost instantly.  This author's works include The Spire, The Inheritors, and Pincher Martin.  FTP, name this author who chronicled the travails of Jack, Ralph, and Piggy after their plane crashed on a deserted island in Lord of the Flies.
He answered questions about his most famous work in the essay "Fable," which is found in a work which also contains "Billy the Kid" and the title essay about Thermopylae, "The Hot Gates."  
Sir William Gerald {Golding} (1) [AH]