- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival in 1996.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 137, pages 397-404. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Literature.
- She has four sons and three stepsons.
- In 2012 Weldon was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, where she shared an office with Professor Maggie Gee.
- In England Weldon won a scholarship to the all-girls South Hampstead High School, before going on to study Psychology and Economics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Later she recalled attending classes with the moral philosopher Malcolm Knox, who "spoke exclusively to the male students, maintaining that women were incapable of moral judgement or objectivity.".
- She did not see her father again before his death in 1949.
- She said there were many reasons why she became a feminist, including the "appalling" lack of equal opportunities and the myth that women were supported by male relatives.
- Weldon's most celebrated work is her 1983 novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, which she wrote at the age of 52.
- Weldon had temporary jobs as a waitress and hospital ward orderly before working as a clerk for the Foreign Office, where she wrote pamphlets to be dropped in Eastern Europe as part of the Cold War. Later she took a job with Crawford's Advertising Agency, where she worked with the writer Elizabeth Smart, and where she could earn enough to support herself and her young son (Nicolas).
- Her second husband, Ron Weldon, was a jazz musician and antiques dealer. The couple visited therapists regularly and in 1992 Ron left Fay for his astrological therapist, who had told him that the couple's astrological signs were incompatible.
- Weldon was a self-declared feminist. Her work features what she described as "overweight, plain women".
- She completed her Master of Arts in 1952 and moved to London, where she worked as a clerk at the Foreign Office for a salary of £6 a week.
- She was an English author, essayist and playwright.
- Her husband Ron died in 1994, just eight hours before the divorce was finalised.
- In 2000 Weldon became a member of the Church of England and was confirmed in St Paul's Cathedral. She stated that she liked to think that she was "converted by St Paul".
- 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.
- In September 1946, when she was 15, Weldon returned from New Zealand to England with her mother and sister. She recalled: "I was a literary groupie from the antipodes...Not that I had any intention of being a writer at the time - too much like hard work. All I wanted was to get married and have babies.".
- Weldon was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University in West London in 2006.
- Weldon grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand, where her father, Frank Thornton Birkinshaw, worked as a doctor. In 1936, when she was five, her parents agreed to separate, later divorcing (1940).
- Weldon served together with Daniel Pipes as the most notable foreign members of the board of the Danish Press Freedom Society (Trykkefrihedsselskabet).
- In 1961, aged 29, Weldon met her second husband, Ron Weldon, a jazz musician and antiques dealer.[24] They married in 1963 when Fay was pregnant with her second son Dan (born that same year). It was while she was pregnant with Dan that Weldon began writing for radio and television.
- She was also chair of judges for the 1983 Booker Prize. The judging for that prize produced a draw between J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K and Salman Rushdie's Shame, leaving Weldon to choose between the two. According to Stephen Moss in The Guardian, "Her arm was bent and she chose Rushdie" only to change her mind as the result was being phoned through.
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