Friday's Poem: "Laundry" by George Bilgere from The Good Kiss. Friday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the writer William Golding, born in 1911 in St. Columb Minor, Cornwall. He started writing when he was seven years old, but his parents wanted him to go into science, so he studied both science and literature. He worked as an actor, producer, settlement house worker, sailor, and teacher, and he published a book of poems (Poems, 1934). Then he went to fight in WWII, and he was part of the Normandy invasion; afterward, he went back to teaching and writing, but he was haunted by the war. He said, "Man produces evil, as a bee produces honey." He wrote four novels, but none of them got published. Then he wrote a novel about a group of normal schoolboys who get stranded on an island and descend into brutality and chaos. It was rejected by 21 publishers, but he kept sending it out. Finally, Lord of the Flies was published in 1954, and it was a huge success. He resigned from teaching and wrote 10 more novels...