Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: This author's only play is about a Greek scientist who invents the steam engine, the printing press, and gunpowder. He described the painter Samuel Mountjoy's imprisonment in a POW camp in the novel Free Fall. Close Quarters and Fire Down Below form a trilogy with a novel about Edmund Talbot's trip to Australia, Rites of Passage. He wrote about the destruction of the Neanderthals by Homo sapiens in The Inheritors. In his best known work, Simon is killed when he is mistaken for the beast by a tribe led by Jack, who later steals Piggy's glasses to make a fire. For 10 points, name this author of Lord of the Flies.
A:
Literature