biography
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Snow, C(harles) P(ercy) Snow, Baron
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| lived:
| (1905–80)
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| biography:
| Novelist and physicist, born in Leicester, Leicestershire, C England, UK. He studied at Leicester and at Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Christ's College (1930–50). He was the author of a cycle of successful novels portraying English life from 1920 onwards, starting with Strangers and Brothers (1940), and including The Masters (1951), The New Men (1954), and Corridors of Power (1964). His controversial The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) discussed the dichotomy between science and literature, and his belief in closer contact between them. He married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950, was knighted in 1957, and became a life peer in 1964. |
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