sentences:  Snow married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950; they had one son.Friends included the mathematician G. H. Hardy, for whom he would write a biographical foreword in "A Mathematician's Apology", the physicist P. M. S. Blackett, the X-ray crystallographer J. D. Bernal, the cultural historian Jacques Barzun and the polymath George Steiner.At Christ's College he tutored H. S. Hoff – later better known as the novelist William Cooper.