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 was married three times. She was first married to Ronald Bateman from 1957 to 1959 when they divorced. Weldon remarried again in 1963 to Ron Weldon until his death in 1994. After the death of her third husband, Fay Weldon remarried again in 1994 to Nick Fox until they divorced in 2020. In all, Fay Weldon had 4 children.
Nick Fox: Who Is Fay Weldon’s Third Husband?
Fox is Weldon’s third husband. She was 60 and Fox 45 when they wed in 1994 with the 15-year age gap shocking many of her friends.
He was a poet and bookseller but became her manager and they moved into his late mother’s home a short distance from the center of Shaftesbury.
Fox became responsible for managing her money, arranging transport, and publicity. The author of books such as ‘The Life and Loves of A She-Devil, admitted she and her husband had ‘terrible rows’.