He created such radio dramas as Miss Pulkinhorn and Break My Heart, but he is more famous for his novels.  
While a member of the Royal Navy he took part in the sinking of the battleship Bismarck.  He created such radio dramas as Miss Pulkinhorn and Break My Heart, but he is more famous for his novels.  He left the novel The Double Tongue unfinished at his death, and previously wrote a trilogy about the Napoleonic wars consisting of Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, and Fire Down Below.  More famous are the works The Inheritors and Pincher Martin, though he gained real acclaim for his The Spire.  FTP, identify this recipient of the literature Nobel in 1983 and author of Lord of the Flies.
While a member of the Royal Navy he took part in the sinking of the battleship Bismarck.  
William Golding