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Tom Sharpe
'''Tom Sharpe''' (born [[March 30]], [[1928]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[satire|satirical]] [[author]], born in [[London]] and educated at [[Lancing College]] and at Pembroke College, [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. After [[National Service]] he moved to [[South Africa]] in [[1951]], doing social work and teaching in [[Natal]], until [[deportation|deported]] in [[1961]].

His work in South Africa inspired ''Riotous Assembly'', ''Indecent Exposure'', and his most famous novel, ''Porterhouse Blue''. From [[1963]] until [[1972]] he was a History lecturer at the [[Cambridge College of Arts and Technology]], which inspired his trilogy ''[[Wilt]]'', ''The Wilt Alternative'', and ''Wilt on High''.

His novels feature bitter and outrageous satire of, ''inter alia'', the [[apartheid]] regime (''Riotous Assembly'' and its sequel ''Indecent Exposure''), dumbed-down education (the Wilt trilogy), British class snobbery (''Ancestral Vices''), ''Porterhouse Blue''), the literary world (''The Great Pursuit''), political extremists of all stripes, [[political correctness]], [[bureaucracy]], and stupidity in general. Characters may indulge in bizarre sexual practices, and coarser characters use very graphic and/or profane language in dialogue. In more printable passages, Sharpe often parodies the language and style of specific authors commonly associated with the social group held up for ridicule. Readers te(contracted; show full)*''Wilt Omnibus'' (1996) 
*''Wilt in Nowhere'' (2004)

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