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".
H. B. Marriott Watson Henry Brereton Marriott Watson (20 December 1863 – 30 October 1921), known by his pen name H.B. Marriott Watson, was an Australian-born British novelist, journalist, playwright, and short-story writer. He worked for the "St. James Gazette", was assistant editor of the "Black and White" and "Pall Mall Gazette", and staff member on W.E. Henley's "National Observer".