C. P. Snow

British · 1905–1980

Charles Percy Snow was a British novelist, scientist, and civil servant best known for the sequence of eleven novels titled Strangers and Brothers (1940–1970) and for the 1959 Rede Lecture published as The Two Cultures, which argued that intellectual life had fractured into two non-communicating cultures — the sciences and the humanities. Snow held senior positions in the British government and was made a life peer in 1964. He was an early champion of John Williams's Stoner, writing a warm review in the 1970s that helped keep the novel's reputation alive.

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