Person
Nevil Shute
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Jan 17, 1899
- Died
- Jan 12, 1960
- From
- Ealing, Middlesex, England
Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or fellow engineers that he was not a serious person or from potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.
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On the Beach
20006.2out of 10
No Highway in the Sky
19517.0out of 10
A Town Like Alice
19566.4out of 10
Landfall
19497.6out of 10
The Pied Piper
19426.9out of 10
Lonely Road
19366.9out of 10
On the Beach
19596.7out of 10
Crossing to Freedom
19907.0out of 10
The Far Country
19877.0out of 10
A Town Like Alice
19817.9out of 10
The Jazz Age
19680.0out of 10
On the Beach
20008.5out of 10