Biography of nevil shute norway

Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.

Working name of UK aeronautical engineer and author Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960), who served as a stretcher bearer in Dublin during the Easter rising in 1916, and was in active service at the end of World War One; for many years he combined writing with engineering work, specializing in Zeppelins – the failure of the R101 disillusioned and embittered him; after his demobilization from active service in World War Two, he moved for political and health reasons to Australia, where he set much of his later fiction; he now wrote full-time.

Some of his earlier fiction, by taking advantage of his intense and very up-to-date knowledge of aeronautics (and of boffins or back-room boys), verges very closely on sf, particularly in So Disdained (1928; vt The Mysterious Aviator1928), which features some intoxicated flying and Communist-inspired espionage.

What Happened to the Corbetts (1939; vt Ordeal1939) is a genuine Fut