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Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.
Nevil Shute has 84 books on Goodreads with 274878 ratings. Nevil Shute’s most popular book is A Town Like Alice.
Nevil Shute (born January 17, 1899, Ealing, Middlesex, England—died January 12, 1960, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) was an English-born novelist who showed a special talent for weaving his technical knowledge of engineering into the texture of his fictional narrative.
Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.
BIOGRAPHIES: There are now four biographies of Nevil Shute. His autobiography "SlideRule: The Autobiography of an Engineer ". Julian Smith's 1976 book "Nevil Shute". "Parallel Motion; a biography of Nevil Shute Norway" by John Anderson, published by Paper Tiger in 2011. For more information about this book click here.
May 16, 2023 · The Nevil Shute Norway Foundation web site is dedicated to the writing, wisdom and philosophy of Nevil Shute Norway. It is a tribute to his skill that more than 55 years after his death, Nevil Shute's works are still enjoyed by so many people around the world.
Few people may be aware of the multifaceted life of Nevil S Norway, better known as Nevil Shute, a popular novelist of the latter half of the last century. Born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, a suburb to the west of London, Nevil Shute Norway was the younger son of Arthur Norway and his wife Mary (nee Gadsden).
