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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 (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 has 86 books on Goodreads with 275944 ratings. Nevil Shute’s most popular book is A Town Like Alice.
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.
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.
An English novelist who later spent much of his time in Australia, the author Nevil Shute Norway, or simply Nevil Shute as he went by his pen-name, was primarily known for his books that tackled everyday issues such as work, race and social-barriers.
After demobilization, to pursue his passionate interests in the field of aviation, Nevil spent an uneventful three and a half years studying Engineering at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with third class honours in 1922.
