Question: Which novelist was born first, William Golding or Noah Gordon?

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Lord of the Flies (1963 film): Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British film adaptation of William Golding's novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where they become savages.  It was directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen.  The film was in production for much of 1961, though the film was not released until 1963.  Golding himself supported the film.  When Kenneth Tynan was a script editor for Ealing Studios he commissioned a script of "Lord of the Flies" from Nigel Kneale, but Ealing Studios closed in 1959 before it could be produced.

Pincher Martin: Pincher Martin (published in America as Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin), is a novel by British writer William Golding, first published in 1956.  It is Golding's third novel, following "The Inheritors" and his debut "Lord of the Flies".

The Hot Gates: The Hot Gates is the title of a collection of essays by William Golding, author of "Lord of the Flies".  The collection is divided into four sections: "People and Places", "Books", "Westward Look" and "Caught in a Bush".  Published in 1965, it includes pieces that Golding had written over the previous ten years.  "Caught in a Bush" contains his childhood recollections "Billy the Kid" and "The Ladder and the Tree", and his essay "Fable", which answered questions about "Lord of the Flies" appears in "Books".  "Fable" is based on lectures Golding gave at UCLA in California and he hoped it would answer "some of the standard questions which students were asking" (7).  The book starts out with an essay on the Battle of Thermopylae, which can be translated from ancient Greek to English as "hot gates", thus giving it the title.  The Hot Gates are famous for being the place where Leonidas I made his last stand against the Persian army under Xerxes I.

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 Gordon (novelist): Noah Gordon (born November 11, 1926) is an American novelist.  He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Free Fall (Golding novel): Free Fall is the fourth novel of English novelist William Golding, first published in 1959.  Written in the first person, it is a self-examination by an English painter, Samuel Mountjoy, held in a German POW camp during World War II.

A Moving Target: A Moving Target is a collection of essays and lectures written by William Golding.  It was first published in 1982 by Faber and Faber but subsequent reprints included Golding's Nobel Prize lecture which he gave after being awarded the honour in 1983.

Alkitrang dugo: Alkitrang dugo is a 1975 Filipino film based on the novel "Lord of the Flies" by English novelist Sir William Golding.

The Spire: The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding.  "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin.  In this novel, William Golding utilises stream of consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator.

Poems (Golding collection): Poems was the first work by British novelist William Golding (better known for "Lord of the Flies", among other novels), released in 1934, 20 years before "Lord of the Flies" (his second major work and first novel).

Supporting paragraphs: William Golding Noah Gordon (novelist)
Answer: Sir William Gerald Golding