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WRITER

Fay Weldon

1931 - 2023

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Fay Weldon (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English author, essayist and playwright. Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffball (1980), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), 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. Married three times and with four children, Weldon was a self-declared feminist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fay Weldon has received more than 443,955 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Fay Weldon is the 4,761st most popular writer (down from 4,429th in 2019), the 3,616th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,404th in 2019) and the 411th most popular British Writer.

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  • 440k

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  • 46.04

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fay Weldon ranks 4,761 out of 5,755Before her are John Holt, Sara Paretsky, Károly Kisfaludy, Hanif Kureishi, John Gardner, and Urs Widmer. After her are Álvaro Cunqueiro, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Warren Farrell, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and Vladimir Makanin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Fay Weldon ranks 368Before her are André Noyelle, Nat Adderley, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Dan Rather, Madeleine Berthod, and Peter Armbruster. After her are Ferenc Szojka, Irwin Winkler, Kiki Dimoula, Skeeter Davis, Olja Ivanjicki, and Roger Planchon. Among people deceased in 2023, Fay Weldon ranks 277Before her are John Pilger, Jorge Edwards, Alberto Mario González, Wilferd Madelung, Abraham Lempel, and Michael Lerner. After her are Lasse Berghagen, Vera T. Sós, Mikio Aoki, John Zizioulas, Randy Meisner, and Waldemar Victorino.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fay Weldon ranks 3,616 out of 7,765Before her are Mary Ure (1933), Mary F. Lyon (1925), Ewen Bremner (1972), John Gardner (1926), Thomas Bell (1792), and Havergal Brian (1876). After her are Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), Callum Keith Rennie (1960), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), John Gerard (1545), and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Fay Weldon ranks 411Before her are Aneirin (525), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Richard Pococke (1704), Jonathan Coe (1961), Hanif Kureishi (1954), and John Gardner (1926). After her are Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), James Thomson (1700), Nigella Lawson (1960), Edward Carpenter (1844), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), and Charles Williams (1886).