Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon CBE, FRSL
Weldon at the Copenhagen Book Fair in 2008
Born	Franklin Birkinshaw (1931-09-22)22 September 1931 Birmingham, England
Died	4 January 2023(2023-01-04) (aged 91) Northampton, England
Occupation	Author essayist playwright
Period	1963–2018
Notable works	Puffball (1980) The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) Wicked Women (1995) The Bulgari Connection (2000)
Spouse	Ronald Bateman ​ ​ (m. 1957; div. 1959)​ Ron Weldon ​ ​ (m. 1963; died 1994)​ Nick Fox ​ ​ (m. 1994; sep. 2020)​
Children	4
Parents	Margaret Jepson (mother)
Relatives	Selwyn Jepson (uncle) Edgar Jepson (grandfather) Alan Birkinshaw (half-brother)

Fay Weldon CBE FRSL (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English author, essayist and playwright.

Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffball (1980), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), Wicked Women (1995) and The Bulgari Connection (2000), but was most well-known as the writer of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) which was televised by the BBC in 1986.

Married three times and with four children, Weldon was a self-declared feminist. Her work features what she described as "overweight, plain women". She said there were many reasons why she became a feminist, including the "appalling" lack of equal opportunities and the myth that women were supported by male relatives.