What is the real surname of Nevil Shute?
Nevil Shute Springs, Northern Territory is the Nevil Shute Memorial Library. In the Readers' List of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th century, "A Town Like Alice" came in at number 17, "Trustee from the Toolroom" at 27, and "On the Beach" at 56. Nevil Shute 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,
Nevil Shute rewritten, and then put aside. In 1948, Shute again rewrote it, changing the title to "Blind Understanding," but he left the manuscript incomplete. According to Dan Telfair in the foreword of the 2002 edition, some of the themes in "The Seafarers" and "Blind Understanding" were used in Shute's 1955 novel "Requiem for a Wren". In 1948, Shute flew his own Percival Proctor airplane to Australia and back, accompanied by the writer James Riddell, who published a book, "Flight of Fancy," based on the trip, in 1950. On his return, concerned about what he saw as the decline of his home