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Nevil Shute

1899 - 1960

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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. 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 from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nevil Shute is the 3,602nd most popular writer (up from 3,957th in 2019), the 2,872nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,836th in 2019) and the 327th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Nevil Shute ranks 3,602 out of 7,302. Before him are Concepción Arenal, Elia Levita, Gabriela Zapolska, Vladimir Megre, Demyan Bedny, and Sergio Ramírez. After him are Vassilis Vassilikos, Brandon Sanderson, George Kodinos, Alma Reville, Ernst Jandl, and Buton Rinchen Drub.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Nevil Shute ranks 173. Before him are C. S. Forester, Rudolf Svensson, Bo Lindman, Aleksandr Deyneka, Carlo Rosselli, and Otto E. Neugebauer. After him are Aldo Nadi, Alma Reville, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Harold Osborn, Ralf Törngren, and Edward Chamberlin. Among people deceased in 1960, Nevil Shute ranks 126. Before him are Toyohiko Kagawa, Margaret Sullavan, Joseph Wendel, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dimitrana Ivanova, and Jamil Mardam Bey. After him are Móric Esterházy, Semyon Lavochkin, Catherine Desnitski, Harry Schell, Marcello Piacentini, and Oliver Kirk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nevil Shute ranks 2,873 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward William Lane (1801), Joely Richardson (1965), Jane Digby (1807), Paul Young (1956), Auguste Couder (1789), and John Alcock (1892). After him are Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621), Mick Ronson (1946), Pat Jennings (1945), Alma Reville (1899), Mark Jones (1933), and Ernest Mason Satow (1843).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Nevil Shute ranks 327. Before him are William Ernest Henley (1849), John Osborne (1929), William Cowper (1731), E. W. Hornung (1866), Arthur Waley (1889), and Edward William Lane (1801). After him are Alma Reville (1899), Charles Lock Eastlake (1793), William Robertson Smith (1846), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Rupert Brooke (1887), and Ian Rankin (1960).

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