''A Moving Target'' is a collection of essays and lectures written by

William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel ''Lord of the Flies'' (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980 ...

. It was first published in 1982"The Supreme Authority on Himself"
''The New York Times''. Retrieved 2023-11-15. by

Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...

but subsequent reprints included Golding's

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

lecture which he gave after being awarded the honour in 1983. The book is divided into the two sections of "Places" and "Ideas".

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20101004182739/http://www.william-golding.co.uk/library/a-moving-target.aspx 1982 books Essay collections Works by William Golding Faber & Faber books {{Essay-stub