C.P. Snow
1905–1980
English novelist, scientist and public servant. Born in Leicester, he studied chemistry at University College, Leicester, and gained a doctorate in physics at Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Christ’s College. He later held senior civil service posts, was made a life peer in 1964 and served as a junior minister in Harold Wilson’s government. His eleven-novel sequence Strangers and Brothers, which includes The Masters and Corridors of Power, depicts academic and political life, and his 1959 lecture The Two Cultures provoked wide debate. He died in 1980. In Their Wisdom was shortlisted for the 1974 Booker Prize.
Works
- In Their Wisdom (1974)
Prizes
- In Their Wisdom — The Booker Prize 1974: Shortlist