Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute
Shute in 1949
Born	Nevil Shute Norway (1899-01-17)17 January 1899 Ealing, Middlesex, England
Died	12 January 1960(1960-01-12) (aged 60) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Novelist aeronautical engineer
Education	Balliol 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"^[1] or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.