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===Literary work=== Snow's first novel was a [[whodunit]], ''Death under Sail'' (1932). In 1975 he wrote a biography of [[Anthony Trollope]]. He is better known as the author of a sequence of novels entitled ''Strangers and Brothers'' in which he depicts intellectuals in modern academic and government settings. The best-known of the sequence is ''The Masters''. It deals with the internal politics of a Cambridge college as it prepares to elect a new master. With the appeal of an insider's view, the novel depicts concerns other than the strictly academic that influence decisions of supposedly objective scholars. ''The Masters'' and ''The New Men'' were jointly awarded the [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbwins.htm |title=The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes: The Prize Winners |publisher=Englit.ed.ac.uk |date=21 May 2012 |access-date=22 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070115050855/http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbwins.htm |archive-date=15 January 2007 }}</ref> ''Corridors of Power'' added a phrase to the language of the day. In 1974, Snow's novel ''In Their Wisdom'' [[List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction|was shortlisted for the Booker Prize]].<ref>[http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/authors/135 C P Snow] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103081530/http://themanbookerprize.com/prize/authors/135 |date=3 January 2010 }} at the Man Booker Prize website</ref> In ''The Realists'', an examination of the work of eight novelists – [[Stendhal]], [[Honoré de Balzac]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[Benito Pérez Galdós]], [[Henry James]] and [[Marcel Proust]] – Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel. The storyline of his novel ''The Search'' is referred to in [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]'s ''[[Gaudy Night]]'' and is used to help elicit the criminal's motive.
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