More than 40 years on, all these judgments seem perfectly true. Alex Comfort compared him to a novelist.Ī US reviewer called the book a "lucid, honest, suspenseful" account of a great discovery, and then added the rider that it was also "unbelievably mean in spirit". The novelist CP Snow, while reviewing a 1968 defence of Rosalind Franklin, Watson's contemporary and unfairly treated competitor, made a little detour to describe him as a "natural" writer. He also described Watson's book as "a classic in the sense that it will go on being read". When The Double Helix was published in 1968, Peter Medawar summed up Watson in a review as someone "extremely clever" who had a towering advantage over all the other clever young graduates in Cambridge: he had something to be clever about.
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