Author Tom Sharpe has died at the age of 85. The writer was best known for his Wilt series of novels and 1974's Porterhouse Blue. Agencia EFE Spain's Europa Press today reported that Sharpe had ...

Tom Sharpe, who has died in Spain at the age of ... But he was perhaps best known for his Wilt series, five novels detailing the comic misadventures of an accident-prone lecturer.

The novelist Tom Sharpe, known for his satirical farces such as Blott On The Landscape and the Wilt series, has died at the age of 85, AFP reported. Novelist Tom Sharpe, who died aged 85 ...

NOVELIST Tom ... Wilt. He became a full-time writer and wrote 16 novels between 1971 and 2010. He had a heart attack on TV: During a live television appearance in Spain during the 1980s, Sharpe ...

The creator of Blott On The Landscape, Wilt and Porterhouse Blue, who recently had a stroke, suffered complications relating to diabetes. He died yesterday in the coastal town of Llafranc in north ...

British comic novelist Tom Sharpe, who wrote the Wilt series and Porterhouse Blue, has died aged 85, his publisher said today. The satirist died in Spain where he had a home in the coastal town of ...

"The private Tom was warm, supportive and wholly engaging. I feel enormously privileged to have been his publisher." Considered one of Britain's funniest writers, Sharpe created the anti-hero Henry ...

LONDON — Tom ... ‘‘Wilt’’ series about a long-suffering college lecturer, and ‘‘Porterhouse Blue,’’ set in a fictitious Cambridge University college. Born in London, Mr. Sharpe ...