Tom Sharpe was born on March 30, 1928 in Holloway, Islington, London, England as Thomas Ridley Sharpe. He was a writer, known for Wilt (1990), Sexes faibles! (1992) and Blott on the Landscape (1985). He was married to Nancy Anne Looper. He died on June 6, 2013 in Llafranc, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.