What is Fay Weldon?
[[File:Fay-Weldon Copenhagen-2008 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Weldon in [[Copenhagen]], 2008]] '''Fay Weldon''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRSL}} (born '''Franklin Birkinshaw'''; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was a [[Britons|British]] author, essayist and playwright.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/our-communities/3043279/Hum-of-lesbianism-at-girls-school|title='Hum of lesbianism' at girls' school|last=Steward|first=By Ian|date=9 November 2009|newspaper=Stuff.co.nz|language=English|access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref> Weldon's most known work is her novel ''[[The Life and Loves of a She-Devil]]'' (1983), which she wrote at the age of 52. Weldon was born in [[Birmingham]]. She lived in New Zealand until the age of 15. She was married three times and had four children. Weldon died on 4 January 2023, at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lea |first1=Richard |title=Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/04/writer-fay-weldon-dies-aged-91 |access-date=4 January 2023 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 January 2023}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20221111135108/https://fayweldon.co.uk/ Official website] {{small|(archived)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Weldon, Fay}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2023 deaths]] [[Category:English playwrights]] [[Category:English novelists]] [[Category:English essayists]] [[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]] [[Category:Writers from Birmingham]] {{bio-stub}}