Culture of Cornwall Cornish poets. The Nobel-prizewinning novelist William Golding who was born in St Columb Minor in 1911, and returned to live near Truro from 1985 until his death in 1993. Other notable Cornish writers include Arthur Quiller-Couch, alias "Q", novelist and literary critic, Jack Clemo, deaf-blind poet, Ronald Bottrall, modernist poet, Robert Stephen Hawker, eccentric Victorian poet and priest, Geoffrey Grigson, poet and critic, Silas Hocking, a prolific novelist, and D. M. Thomas, novelist and poet. The late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry. He is buried in the churchyard
Arthur Quiller-Couch an enormous relief to these two gentlemen when the War Office took over the 10th Battalion on 24 August 1915. In 1887, while he was attending Oxford, he published "Dead Man's Rock", a romance in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", and later "Troy Town" (1888), a comic novel set in a fictionalised version of his home town Fowey, and "The Splendid Spur" (1889). Quiller-Couch was well known for his story "The Rollcall of the Reef", based on the wreck of HMS "Primrose" during 1809 on the Cornish coast. He published during 1896 a series of critical articles,