Editing Nevil Shute (section)

{{Short description|English novelist (1899–1960)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox writer
| name        = Nevil Shute
| image       = Neville Shute AWW 1949.jpg
| caption     = Shute in 1949
| birth_name  = Nevil Shute Norway
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1899|01|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Ealing]], Middlesex<!-- Do not change to London, Ealing was in Middlesex in 1899 -->, England
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1960|01|12|1899|01|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Melbourne]], Victoria, Australia
| occupation  = {{hlist|Novelist|aeronautical engineer}}
| education   = [[Balliol College, Oxford]]
}}

'''Nevil Shute Norway''' (17 January 1899{{spaced ndash}}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"{{sfn|Shute1954|p=65}} or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included ''[[On the Beach (novel)|On the Beach]]'' and ''[[A Town Like Alice]]''.