C. P. Snow
Personal Information
Description
Charles Percy Snow was born in Leicester and educated at the Leicestershire and Rutland College (now the University of Leicester) and the University of Cambridge, where he became a Fellow of Christ's College in 1930. His first novel, Death Under Sail, was published in 1932. He was technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940-1944; he was civil service commissioner from 1945-1960; he was Rector of the University of St. Andrews from 1961-1964; and he was parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Technology from 1964-1966. In 1950 he married novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson. He was knighted in 1957 and made Baron Snow of the City of Leicester in 1964. He wrote over 25 books.
Books
Trollope, his life and art
An account of Trollope's early life: his pitiable childhood, an unwanted encumbrance to his parents; his shabby and miserable adolescence at Harrow and Winchester.
Variety of men
Rutherford -- G.H. Hardy -- H.G. Wells -- Einstein -- Lloyd George -- Winston Churchill -- Robert Frost -- Dag Hammarskjold -- Stalin.