Nevil Shute Norway (
17 January 1899 -
12 January 1960) was, as Nevil Shute, one of the most popular
novelists of the mid-
20th century, as well as a successful aeronautical engineer. His stories and characters are humane but avoid emotional extremes (occasionally to a surprising extent, given the circumstances they describe), which helps explain why a half-century after his death, virtually all his books remain in print.
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