Fay Weldon CBE, FRSL was an English author, essayist, and playwright. Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May, 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.
Fay Weldon Obituary, Funeral
The novelist Fay Weldon, who has died aged 91, was to an unusual extent the creation of her own extravagant imagination.
A polemicist whose opinions shaped themselves around the plot of her latest book, a pragmatist who giggled her way through every sentence, she was mischievous and evasive, yet wilfully and wittily life-affirming.
“I long for a day of judgment when the plot lines of our lives will be neatly tied, and all puzzles explained, and the meaning of events made clear,” she wrote in her rackety 2002 autobiography, Auto da Fay.
Her son Tom died in 2019. She is survived by her sons, Nick, Dan, and Sam, and her stepdaughter, Karen. Fay (Franklin) Weldon, writer, born 22 September 1931; died 4 January 2023