Tom Sharpe

Alexandre Fachard (University of Geneva)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

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Born 30 Mar 1928
Died 6 Jun 2013
Activity 1971-2010

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Active in United Kingdom

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Thomas Ridley Sharpe was born on 30 March 1928 in London, the younger of two sons by George Coverdale Sharpe, a fifty-six-year-old Unitarian minister who had two children from a previous marriage; and Grace Egerton Brown, an Australian-born South African from a wealthy family who was fifteen years her husband’s junior. A late, “unexpected and unwanted child” (Brendon 36), Sharpe had a lonely childhood marked by his family’s frequent moves to elude the authorities: his father belonged to several fascist organizations, attended Nazi rallies, and praised National-Socialism in his sermons. Had the Sharpes not led a “nomadic existence” (Brendon 48), flitting from one hideaway to another, “father would have been arrested and interned” without trial like other wartime right-wing…

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Citation: Fachard, Alexandre. "Tom Sharpe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 November 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15238, accessed 22 December 2024.]