Opened Mar 2015
Updated: 27 Mar 2015
Other C P Snow books: characters and originals |
Opened Mar 2015 |
C P SNOW
The author C P Snow was a physical chemist, novelist, and Civil Servant. His best-known books are the Strangers & Brothers sequence, but he wrote a good many others. The origins of some of the characters in those other books are given here.
N E Austin
Austin was said by Snow to be loosely based on the great physicist | |||||||||||
Professor Desmond
Believed to be based on a mix of Prof Frank Bowden (see Francis Getliffe) and Prof Sir Eric Rideal (see Herbert Getliffe) | |||||||||||
Detective Chief Superintendent Frank Briers
Believed to be based on Commander Ronald Harvey, head of the Murder Squad of the London Metropolitan Police. | |||||||||||
Alec Luria
Luria was based on Philip Rieff (1922-2006) social psychologist and ex-husband of Susan Sontag. They divorced in 1959.
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