Nevil Shute Quotes


The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.


Citations

Shute, Nevil. Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer. William Morrow, 1954.

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Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute
  • Born: January 17, 1899
  • Died: January 12, 1960
  • Nationality: British, Australian
  • Profession: Novelist

Nevil Shute Norway 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 inferences by his employers (Vickers) or fellow engineers that he was not a serious person or from potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.