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Biography of Fay Birkinshaw WeldonName: Fay Birkinshaw WeldonBirth Date: September 22, c. 1931 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Alvechurch, England Nationality: British Gender: Female Occupations: novelist, feminist, dramatist Fay Birkinshaw Weldon British novelist, dramatist, essayist, and feminist Fay Birkinshaw Weldon (born 1931) was famous for her witty and satirical evocations of contemporary mores and morals as they affect the lives of women.Whether Fay Birkinshaw Weldon was born on September 22 of 1931 or of 1933 is uncertain; what is certain, however, is that this British author of internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, screen plays, and television and radio dramas, as well as works of biography and historical criticism, descended from a line of writers. Her mother, Margaret Birkinshaw, reportedly published two novels under her maiden name and wrote serial novels under the pseudonym Pearl Bellairs. Weldon's maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson, edited Vanity Fair and wrote popular romance-adventure stories, and his brother Selwyn authored mystery-thrillers and plays for screen, television, and radio. Understandably, Weldon saw her literary ability as, at least in part, genetic.Weldon and her family moved to New Zealand soon after her …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…film editor in London who unravels mysteries about her family history, and The Bulgari Connection (2001), which was commissioned for the jewelry maker Bulgari, and required Weldon to use the firm's name at least twelve times in the novel. The novel was first published in 2000 in a special edition for Bulgari's best customers. Further Reading Weldon's writing is reviewed in American newspapers and periodicals such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Village Voice. For interviews see Marjorie Williams in The Washington Post (April 24, 1988) and Eden Ross Lipson in Lear's (January 1990). Brigitte Salzmann-Brunner in Amanuenses to the Present: Protagonists in the Fiction of Penelope Mortimer, Margaret Drabble, and Fay Weldon (1988) looks at Weldon's work in the context of that of her peers. See also Carolyn Nizzi Warmbold, "Books: Reviews and Opinion: In Brief: `Wicked Women' by Fay Weldon," The Atlantic Journal and Constitution (June 22, 1997). |