Favorite+Authors

One of my favorite authors is Nevil Shute. I have read his novels for years and collect hard copies of his books but only recently read his authobiography, //Slide Rule.// It was an excellent book and gives one insight into this interesting English writer. Shute was an engineer who loved to fly planes. He incorporates the romance and drama of flying into many of his novels. Some of his novels are //An Old// //Captivity//, //What Happened to the Corbetts//, //Requiem for a Wren//, //The Far Country//, //A Town Like Alice,// and //On the Beach.// It is interesting to note that //On the Beach// was his most popular novel but not, in my opinion, his best work. Shute's real name was Nevil Shute Norway but he preferred to publish his novels under just his first and middle name because he did not want his writing to interfere with his career as an engineer. Barb Wiggins

I like to read: //To Kill a Mockingbird//, by Harper Lee, anything by Nicholas Sparks, cookbooks by Ina Gardner, travel books, //Sports Illustrated// magazines, and joke books. Jennifer Manson