name: Nevil Shute
birth_date: 1899-01-17 00:00:00
death_date: 1960-01-12 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction, Fiction
avg_rating: 4.08
ratings_count: 142092
about: Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels. He lived in Australia for the ten years before his death.