Which novelist was born first, William Golding or Noah Gordon?
William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel "Lord of the Flies", he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel "Rites of Passage", the first book in what became his sea trilogy, "To the Ends of the Earth".
Noah Comet Noah Comet is a professor of English literature at the United States Naval Academy. He specializes in Nineteenth Century (Romantic and Victorian) British Literature. He is known for his book called "Hellenism and Romantic Women Writers" from Macmillan Press and several scholarly articles, among them essays in "The Wordsworth Circle" and the "Keats-Shelley Journal" on poets Letitia Landon and Felicia Hemans,