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Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.
Nevil Shute (born January 17, 1899, Ealing, Middlesex, England—died January 12, 1960, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) was an English-born novelist who showed a special talent for weaving his technical knowledge of engineering into the texture of his fictional narrative.
This section has been created to provide additional sources of information relating to the life of Nevil Shute Norway. It is intended as a supplement to his autobiography, the biography by Julian Smith, and Richard Michalak's Time Line.
Nov 4, 2022 · After the war, disillusioned with political changes and the financial restraints of post-war Britain, Nevil Shute settled in Australia and his later novels reflect this change of domicile. Probably his most famous was 'A Town like Alice', 1950, a love story set firstly during the Japanese occupation of Malaya and the East Indies and later in ...
Few people may be aware of the multifaceted life of Nevil S Norway, better known as Nevil Shute, a popular novelist of the latter half of the last century. Born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, a suburb to the west of London, Nevil Shute Norway was the younger son of Arthur Norway and his wife Mary (nee Gadsden).
Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960), writer and aeronautical engineer, was born on 17 January 1899 at Ealing, London, second child of Arthur Hamilton Norway, a clerk in the General Post Office, and his wife Mary Louisa, née Gadsden. In 1912 Arthur became secretary of the Post Office in Ireland.
NORWAY, NEVIL SHUTE (1899-1960), novelist under the name NEVIL SHUTE and aeronautical engineer, was born in Ealing on 17th January 1899, the younger son of a Cornishman, Arthur Hamilton Norway, who became an assistant secretary of the General Post Office, and his wife Mary Louisa Gadsden.
