He started teaching in 1935, but took a brief pause on his career and joined the Royal Navy in 1940 for World War II. Furthermore, Golding was a phenomenal soldier and saw things that scared many people during the time. After the war was over, Golding went back to his teaching career and found inspiration for his first novel Lord of the Flies. He was inspired by the events of World War II and the children that he taught. He used the horrid events of World War II and the actions of his students to create this novel that you can go so in depth with that it can now be recognized as a book that can be researched in school. Later on in his life, William accepted and was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for English Literature in 1983 for his work .William sadly later passed away due to a heart attack at the age of eighty two. He later released a novel that he was writing and was later published
He started teaching in 1935, but took a brief pause on his career and joined the Royal Navy in 1940 for World War II. Furthermore, Golding was a phenomenal soldier and saw things that scared many people during the time. After the war was over, Golding went back to his teaching career and found inspiration for his first novel Lord of the Flies. He was inspired by the events of World War II and the children that he taught. He used the horrid events of World War II and the actions of his students to create this novel that you can go so in depth with that it can now be recognized as a book that can be researched in school. Later on in his life, William accepted and was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for English Literature in 1983 for his work .William sadly later passed away due to a heart attack at the age of eighty two. He later released a novel that he was writing and was later published