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    Nevil Shute

    Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899 – 1960)

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    Nevil Shute Norway is best known for his novels, which often have an aviation theme and are based on his experiences as an aeronautical engineer and as a pilot. He used the name Nevil Shute for his novels, but as an engineer he was Nevil Norway. Born in Ealing, he went to Shrewsbury School and Balliol College. The family moved to Dublin where his father was head of the Post Office, and Nevil was a stretcher bearer during the 1916 Easter Rising. For some reason a stammer prevented his joining the Royal Flying Corps during World War I, and instead he joined the Suffolk Regiment. He started his career at de Havilland before moving to Vickers to work on the development of airships. In the 1920s aeroplanes were considered unsuitable for carrying large numbers of passengers long distances, whereas airships – the Graf Zeppelin being one – were already carrying commercial loads.

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    Nevil Shute

    Nevil Shute Norway was born 17th January 1899 at Ealing, London, the youngest of two brothers and the son of a senior civil servant in the General Post Office.

    At an early stage it was obvious that his interests lay not in things academic as did his brother's but in things practical, having been caught playing truant from school only to spend his time studying the mechanical exhibits and early flying machines in the Science Museum in South Kensington.

    The family moved from London to Dublin in 1912 when his father was appointed Secretary to the Post Office in Ireland. Nevil Shute had attended various schools in England including Shrewsbury and it was whilst on holiday from there that he was in Dublin during the Easter uprising in 1916, and acted as a stretcher bearer.

    In June, 1915, his older brother Fred had died of wounds in Flanders during WW1. He was quite fatalistic about his future at this stage, having seen many of his seniors at school killed in the fighting i

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    Nevil Shute

    English novelist (1899–1960)

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    BornNevil Shute Norway
    (1899-01-17)17 January 1899
    Ealing, Middlesex, England
    Died12 January 1960(1960-01-12) (aged 60)
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Occupation
    • Novelist
    • aeronautical engineer
    EducationBalliol College, Oxford

    Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) 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 from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.

    Early life

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    Shute was born in Somerset Road, Ealing (which was then in Middlesex), in the house described in his novel Trustee from the Too