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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Can you name the author of ‘A Town Like Alice’? ?Question: Can you name the author of ‘A Town Like Alice’!? !? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Yeah! I believe it was ‘Nevil Shute’!!!!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The British/Australian author, Nevil Shute (1899-1960)!. He was born in London, worked as an aviation engineer, founding his own company, Airspeed Ltd!. Although he kept his engineering and writing careers entirely separate, aviation features in many of his novels!. Shute was a prolific writer - some 22 or so novels between 1926 and 1958!. In the 1950s and 60s he was one of the world's best selling popular novelists!. After that his popularity declined!. In 1950 Shute moved permanently to Australia with his wife and daughters, unhappy with the post-war British Labour government!. He died in Melbourne in 1960!. Amongst his other noted novels are "The far Country" and "On the Beach", set in a post nuclear war Australia!. This latter book is generally regarded as hist best work!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Nevil Shute, really gd writer! Here's some info about him : Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, he was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford!. Shute's father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, was the head of the post office in Dublin in 1916 and Shute was commended for his role as a stretcher bearer during the Easter Rising!. Shute attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich but because of his stammer was unable to take up a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, instead serving in World War I as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment!. An aeronautical engineer as well as a pilot, he began his engineering career with de Havilland Aircraft Company but, dissatisfied with the lack of opportunities for advancement, took a position in 1924 with Vickers Ltd!., where he was involved with the development of airships!. Shute worked as Chief Calculator (stress engineer) on the R100 Airship project for the subsidiary Airship Guarantee Company!. In 1929, he was promoted to Deputy Chief Engineer of the R100 project under Sir Barnes Wallis!. Www@QuestionHome@Com it was ‘Nevil Shute’ Www@QuestionHome@Com |