C. P. Snow (1905–1980)

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1. C. P. Snow

   Author of The Affair, The New Men, The Conscience of the Rich

2. Anthony Trollope

   Author of Barchester Towers, Can You Forgive Her?, Ayala's Angel

3. Anthony Powell

   Author of A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, Summer, A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, Autumn, A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter

4. Iris Murdoch

   Author of A Severed Head, The Book and the Brotherhood, Nuns and Soldiers

5. Graham Greene

   Author of Brighton Rock, The Honorary Consul, Monsignor Quixote

6. Evelyn Waugh

   Author of Black Mischief, Put Out More Flags, Officers and Gentlemen

7. Cyril Hare

   Author of An English Murder, When the Wind Blows, Death is No Sportsman

8. Margaret Drabble

   Author of The Radiant Way, The Ice Age, A Natural Curiosity

9. Margery Allingham

   Author of The Crime at Black Dudley, The China Governess, The Case of the Late Pig

10. Kingsley Amis

    Author of The Old Devils, The Green Man, One Fat Englishman

11. Stephen Jay Gould

    Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

12. Michael Innes

    Author of Death at the President's Lodging, Hamlet, revenge!, Hare Sitting Up

13. Edmund Crispin

    Author of The Moving Toyshop, Holy Disorders, The Long Divorce

14. Josephine Tey

    Author of The Man in the Queue, Miss Pym Disposes, A Shilling for Candles

15. P. D. James

    Author of The Murder Room, Cover Her Face, A Mind To Murder

16. Gladys Mitchell

    Author of The Rising of the Moon, The Saltmarsh Murders, The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop

17. Angus Wilson

    Author of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Hemlock and After, The Old Men at the Zoo

18. John Clifford Mortimer

    Author of Rumpole of the Bailey, Paradise Postponed, Clinging to the Wreckage

19. Lytton Strachey

    Author of Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

20. Muriel Spark

    Author of Memento Mori, The Mandelbaum Gate, The Public Image