Autor/-in: C. P. Snow

C. P. Snow was born in Leicester in 1905 and educated at a secondary school. He started his career as a professional scientist, though writing was always his ultimate aim. He won a research scholarship to Cambridge and became a Fellow of his college in 1930. He continued his academic life there until the beginning of the Second World War, by which time he had already begun his masterwork - the eleven-volume Strangers and Brothers. sequence, two of which (The Masters. and The New Men. ) were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1954. His other novels include The Search, The Malcontents. and In Their Wisdom. , the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1974. Snow became a civil servant during the war and went on to become a Civil Service commissioner, for which he received a knighthood. He married a fellow novelist, Pamela Hansford Johnson, in 1950 and delivered his famous lecture, The Two Cultures. , that same year. C. P. Snow died in 1980.