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
Charles Lee (author) amongst the group of artists who formed the Newlyn School. His "Cornish Tales" had an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. After relocating to the London suburbs, he worked as senior editor for J. M. Dent, where, owing to his talent for editing prose, he came to be known as "the man with the green pen." As well as a number of short stories he wrote several plays, journals, and musical scores and a guide book of St Mawgan:- "The Vale of Lanherne", . In collaboration with D.B. Wyndham Lewis he compiled "The Stuffed Owl", an anthology of bad (mainly inappropriate