Fay Weldon CBE

Occupation: Author

Fay Weldon CBE Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Fay Weldon was brought up in New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom when she was ten. She read Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and worked briefly for the Foreign Office in London, then as a journalist, and then as an advertising copywriter. She later gave up her career in advertising, and began to write full-time. Her first novel, THE FAT WOMAN’S JOKE, was published in 1967. She was Chair of the Judges for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1983, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 1990. In 2001 she was awarded a CBE.

Fay Weldon's work includes over twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children's books, non-fiction books, magazine articles and a number of plays written for television, radio and the stage, including the pilot episode for the television series Upstairs Downstairs.
 
Fay’s memoir, AUTO DA FAY, was published in 2002 by HarperCollins who also published her latest nonfiction work WHAT MAKES WOMEN HAPPY (Fourth Estate) in September 2006. Quercus published THE STEPMOTHER'S DIARY in September 2008, and her novel CHALCOT CRESCENT was published by Corvus in September 2009 who also published her latest novel KEHUA! in 2010. She is currently working on HABITS OF THE HOUSE which will be her next release.

 

Bibliography
The Fat Woman's Joke   MacGibbon & Kee, 1967
Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on Marriage   (contributor)   Methuen, 1970
Down Among the Women   Heinemann, 1971
Scene Scripts   (contributor)   Longman, 1972
Words of Advice   Samuel French, 1974
Female Friends   Heinemann, 1975
Remember Me   Hodder & Stoughton, 1976
Little Sisters   Hodder & Stoughton, 1978
Praxis   Hodder & Stoughton, 1978
New Stories 4   (editor with Elaine Feinstein)   Hutchinson, 1979
Action Replay   Samuel French, 1980
Puffball   Hodder & Stoughton, 1980
Simple Steps to Public Life   (with Pamela Anderson and Mary Stott)   Virago, 1980
Watching Me, Watching You   Hodder & Stoughton, 1981
The President's Child   Hodder & Stoughton, 1982
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil   Hodder & Stoughton, 1983
I Love My Love   Samuel French, 1984
Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen   Michael Joseph, 1984
Polaris and Other Stories   Hodder & Stoughton, 1985
Rebecca West   Viking, 1985
The Shrapnel Academy   Hodder & Stoughton, 1986
The Heart of the Country   Hutchinson, 1987
The Hearts and Lives of Men   Heinemann, 1987
The Rules of Life   Hutchinson, 1987
Leader of the Band   Hodder & Stoughton, 1988
Wolf the Mechanical Dog   Collins, 1988
Party Puddle   Collins, 1989
The Cloning of Joanna May   Collins, 1989
Darcy's Utopia   Collins, 1990
Moon Over Minneapolis   HarperCollins, 1991
A Question of Timing   Colophon, 1992
Growing Rich   HarperCollins, 1992
Life Force   HarperCollins, 1992
Affliction   HarperCollins, 1993
Angel, All Innocence   Bloomsbury, 1995
Splitting   Flamingo, 1995
The Lady is a Tramp: Portraits of Catherine Bailey   Thames & Hudson, 1995
Wicked Women   Flamingo, 1995
Worst Fears   Flamingo, 1996
Big Women   Flamingo, 1997
Nobody Likes Me!   Bodley Head, 1997
A Hard Time to be a Father   Flamingo, 1998
The Pocket Canons Bible: Corinthians   (introduction)   Canongate, 1998
Godless in Eden: a Book of Essays   Flamingo, 1999
Rhode Island Blues   Flamingo, 2000
The Bulgari Connection   Flamingo, 2001
Auto Da Fay   Flamingo, 2002
Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide   Flamingo, 2002
Mantrapped   HarperCollins, 2004
She May Not Leave   Fourth Estate, 2005
 
 
PRIZES AND AWARDS
1979   Booker Prize for Fiction   (shortlist)   Praxis
1996   PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award   Wicked Women
2001   CBE

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