Trustee from the Toolroom is a novel written by Nevil Shute.
 Shute died in January 1960; "Trustee" was published posthumously later that year.
Janna Malamud Smith (born 1952) is an American non-fiction writer.
 She was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1952, the second of two children born to Ann DeChiara Malamud and the writer Bernard Malamud.
 She grew up in Oregon, then in Bennington, Vermont, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 She received her A.B. from Harvard University in 1973, majoring in American History and Literature, and an M.S.W. in 1979 from Smith College.
 She practices and teaches psychotherapy in the Boston area.
 She is married to David Smith, and is the mother of two children.
Australia, unlike Europe, does not have a long history in the genre of science fiction.
 Nevil Shute's "On the Beach", published in 1957, and filmed in 1959, was perhaps the first notable international success.
 Though not born in Australia, Shute spent his latter years there, and the book was set in Australia.
 It might have been worse had the imports of American pulp magazines not been restricted during WWII, forcing local writers into the field.
 Various compilation magazines began appearing in the 1960s and the field has continued to expand into some significance.
 Today Australia has a thriving SF/Fantasy genre with names recognised around the world.
 In 2013 a trilogy by Sydney-born Ben Peek was sold at auction to a UK publisher for a six-figure deal .
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 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 any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included "On the Beach" and "A Town Like Alice".
The PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading honors "excellence in the art of the short story", and is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
 The selection committee is composed of PEN/Faulkner directors and representatives of Bernard Malamud's literary executors.
 The award was first given in 1988.
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer.
 Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century.
 His baseball novel, "The Natural", was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford.
 His 1966 novel "The Fixer" (also filmed), about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
No Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute.
 It later formed the basis of the 1951 film "No Highway in the Sky".
 The novel contains many of the ingredients that made Shute popular as a novelist, and, like several other of Shute's later novels, includes an element of the supernatural.
In The Wet is a novel by Nevil Shute that was first published in the United Kingdom in 1953.
 It contains many of the typical elements of a hearty and adventurous Shute yarn such as flying, the future, mystic states, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
A Town Like Alice (United States title: "The Legacy") is an economic development and romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.
 Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to generate economic prosperity in a small outback community — to turn it into "a town like Alice" i.e. Alice Springs.
Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer is the partial autobiography of the British novelist Nevil Shute.
 It was first published in 1954.
 "Slide Rule" concentrates on Nevil Shute's work in aviation, ending in 1938 when he left the industry.

Question: Which novelist's name, Nevil Shute or Bernard Malamud, was a pen name to distance his writing from his career in engineering?
Answer: Nevil Shute