Background
WELDON, Fay was born on September 22, 1931 in Alvechurch, Worcs.
WELDON, Fay was born on September 22, 1931 in Alvechurch, Worcs.
Girls’ High School, Christchurch, New Zealand, and University of St. Andrews.
In order to support herself and her son, and provide for his education, Weldon started working in the advertising industry. As Head of Copywriting at one point she was responsible for publicising (but not originating) the phrase "Go to work on an egg". In 1967, she published her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke. For the next 30 years she built a very successful career, publishing over twenty novels, collections of short stories, films for television, newspaper and magazine articles and becoming a well-known face and voice on the BBC.Weldon serves together with Daniel Pipes as the most notable foreign members of the board of the Danish Press Freedom Society (Trykkefrihedsselskabet).
Novels: The Fat Woman’s Joke 1967 (republished as.. And the Wife Ran Away 1968), Down Among the Women 1971, Words of Advice 1974, Female Friends 1975, Remember Me 1976, Praxis 1978, Puffball 1980, The President's Child 1982, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil 1984, Letters to Alice—On First Reading Jane Austen 1984, Rebecca West 1985, The Shrapnel Academy 1986, The Heart of the Country 1987, The Hearts and Lives of Men 1987, Leader of the Band 1988, The Cloning of Joanna May 1989, Sacred Cows 1989, Darcy’s Utopia 1990, Moon over Minneapolis: or why she couldn’t stay 1991. Plays: Permanence 1969, Words of Advice 1974, Moving House 1976, Mr Director 1978, Action Replay 1979, After the Prize 1981, I Love My Love 1981, Love Among the Women 1982 Woodworm 1983, Short stories: Polaris and Other Stories, Watching Me Watching You.Novella: The Rules of Life 1986. More than 50 television plays, dramatisations and radio plays.
member of Church of England
Theatre, Cinema
Jazz
Married Ronald Weldon in 1960.