The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn (eBook, PDF)

Born in Nottingham, England, in 1952 into a working class family, William Sharp was educated at Nottingham High School for Boys, and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. In 1977, he moved to Norway where he married a young woman from Bergen. They had first met in Hamar a few years earlier and became a couple when she moved to Newcastle for a year to study English. Living first in Bergen and later moving to the Stavanger area where William took up employment in an oil company, he and his wife lived there until retiring and moving to the UK in 2015. He has two daughters and four grandchildren, all living in England.