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 feminist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fay Weldon has received more than 467,138 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Fay Weldon is the 4,056th most popular writer (up from 4,745th in 2019), the 2,912th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,608th in 2019) and the 327th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The hearts and lives of men
Fiction, Married people
Clifford Wexford, a thirty-five-year-old art dealer, and Helen Lally, the twenty-two-year-old daughter of an artist, meet, fall in love, marry, produce Nell, and divorce.
1987
The life and loves of a she-devil
Fiction, Divorced women, Revenge
1983
Praxis
Fiction in English
Raised by a mad mother and a half-mad sister, abandoned by her father, Praxis Duveen is a master of the art of survival. Her life, indeed, has been full: two marriages, unsuccessful; a brief but profitable career as a prostitute; a little dabbling in incest; a mercy killing; and an inadvertent reign as both apostle and victim of the women's movement. Buffeted and battered by life, Praxis has survived with energy and humor intact. Her struggles with men and women, with mother and marriages, and most particularly, with herself, become, in Weldon's deft hands, a witty and trenchant commentary on what women want—and what they can actually get.
1978
Female friends
Female friendship, Fiction, Fiction in English
1974
The fat woman's joke
Women, Man-woman relationships, Families
1967
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fay Weldon ranks 4,056 out of 7,302. Before her are Chairil Anwar, Marcel Jouhandeau, James Redfield, Jan Kott, E. B. White, and Gary Chapman. After her are George Coșbuc, André Schwarz-Bart, Wipo of Burgundy, Aisha Taymur, Daniel Silva, and Alexandru Macedonski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Fay Weldon ranks 294. Before her are Helena Pilejczyk, Walter Burkert, Edith Bruck, Janusz Majewski, Norman Read, and Tamara Tyshkevich. After her are Dorothy Stang, Elias M. Stein, Willie Mays, Irwin Winkler, Shunichiro Okano, and Guido Messina. Among people deceased in 2023, Fay Weldon ranks 356. Before her are Renate Boy, Erkin Koray, Pat McCormick, Nicolae Neagoe, Russell Banks, and Zdeněk Mácal. After her are Gordon Lightfoot, Juan Carlos Sarnari, Francis Lee, Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Charles W. Misner, and Yacouba Sawadogo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fay Weldon ranks 2,912 out of 8,785. Before her are David Murray (1909), Edith Hannam (1878), Richard Addinsell (1904), John Michael Wright (1617), Mick Jackson (1943), and Paul Simonon (1955). After her are Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868), John Pell (1611), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), Christina Pickles (1935), Maria Edgeworth (1768), and Robert Simson (1687).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Fay Weldon ranks 327. Before her are John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Alexander Neckam (1157), Mary Norton (1903), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Michael Morpurgo (1943), and Anita Brookner (1928). After her are Maria Edgeworth (1768), Eric Frank Russell (1905), Peter Cheyney (1896), Jackie Collins (1937), Helen Fielding (1958), and John Christopher (1922).

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