About

Known credits:
10
Birthday:
1899-01-17
Place of birth:
Ealing, Middlesex, England
Website:
N/A

Nevil Shute

Overview

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.

Known for

Writing
2000 On the Beach Writing Novel 59
Average
1990 Crossing to Freedom Writing Book 59
Average
1987 The Far Country Writing Novel N/A
N/A
1981 A Town Like Alice Writing Novel 70
Good
1959 On the Beach Writing Novel 61
Fair
1956 A Town Like Alice Writing Novel 59
Average
1951 No Highway in the Sky Writing Novel 59
Average
1949 Landfall Writing Novel 59
Average
1942 The Pied Piper Writing Novel 59
Average
1936 Lonely Road Writing Novel 59
Average