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Nationality: British. Born: Thomas Ridley Sharpe in London, 1928. Education: Lancing College, Sussex, 1942-46; Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1948-51, M.A.; teacher's training, Cambridge University, 1962-63, P.C.G.E. 1963. Military Service: Served in the Royal Marines, 1946-48. Career: Social worker, 1951-52, and teacher, 1952-56, Natal, South Africa; photographer, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 1956-61; deported from South Africa on political grounds, 1961; teacher, Aylesbury Secondary Modern School, Buckinghamshire, 1961; Lecturer in History, Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, 1963-71. Since 1971, full-time writer. Agent: Anthony Sheil Associates, 43 Doughty Street, London, WC1N 2LF.PUBLICATIONS
Novels
Riotous Assembly. London, Secker and Warburg, 1971; New York, Viking Press, 1972.
Indecent Exposure. London, Secker and Warburg, 1973; New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.
Porterhouse Blue. London, Secker and Warburg, and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1974.
Blott on the Landscape. London, Secker and Warburg, 1975; New York, Vintage, 1984.
Wilt. London, Secker and Warburg, 1976; New York, Vintage, 1984.
The Great Pursuit. London, Secker and Warburg, 1977; New York, Harper, 1984.
The Throwback. London, Secker and Warburg, 1978; New York, Vintage, 1984.
The Wilt Alternative. London, Secker and Warburg, 1979; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981(?).
Ancestral Vices. London, Secker and Warburg, 1980.
Vintage Stuff. London, Secker and Warburg, 1982; New York, Vintage, 1984.
Wilt on High. London, Secker and Warburg, 1984; New York, Random House, 1985.
Grantchester Grind: A Porterhouse Chronicle. London, Secker & Warburg, 1995.
The Midden. London, A. Deutsch, Secker & Warburg, 1996; Woodstock, New York, Overlook Press, 1997.
Plays
The South African (produced London, 1961).
Television Play:
She Fell among Thieves, from the novel by Dornford Yates, 1978.
