Fay Weldon
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, playwright and essayist,
is a prolific writer whose work ranges over many genres and media, and in 2017 amounted to thirty-four novels, seven short-story volumes, three books for children, and six non-fictional works. Her fiction is translated into over a dozen languages. She has written numerous television and radio dramas, stage plays, non-fictional articles and studies, autobiography and experimental or mock autobiography. She has never, she says, written poetry.
- BirthName: Franklin Birkinshaw 's mother invented her name for reasons of numerology: Franklin Birkinshaw produced the same numerical total as . She was expecting a boy, and wanted to name him after her husband, Frank. Frank, however, found this choice confusing, and began calling the child Fay.When she was a child the local public library refused to recognize Fay: she writes, I took out library books as Franklin and read them as Fay.Later she was admitted to St Andrew's University in Scotland (which operated a quota for women) because they thought from her name that she was male.Biographers and both warn that has frequently chosen to reinvent herself biographically, leaving actual facts about her life surrounded in mystery; these warnings remain valid even after the appearance of FW's autobiography.
- Nickname: Fay
- Self-constructed: DaviesShe assumed the name of Davies by deed poll when she was pregnant in 1955, acting on her mother's conviction that it was better to appear an abandoned wife than an unmarried mother.Fay's early response to her new name was Ugh!At a low point in her life at the end of 1956 she begins in her memoir to call herself Davies, without first name.
- Married: Bateman; Weldonrefers to herself in her autobiography as Mrs Bateman for the time that this marriage lasted, but as Fay Bateman after the divorce.; Foxsays: Names are important. I was only to become a writer when I added Weldon to the Fay.
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