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 Warren Noah Warren is an American poet and 2015 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Yale University Press published his collection "The Destroyer in the Glass" in 2016.