Fay Weldon Fay Weldon Fay Weldon CBE FRSL (born 22 September 1931) is an English author, essayist, feminist and playwright. Weldon was born Franklin Birkinshaw in Birmingham, England, to a literary family, with both her maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson (1863–1938), and her mother Margaret writing novels (the latter under the nom de plume Pearl Bellairs, from the name of a character in Aldous Huxley's short story "Farcical History of Richard Greenow"). Weldon spent her early years in Christchurch, New Zealand, where her father worked as a doctor. After her parents divorced, when she was six, she and her sister Jane spent the
Tom Cain (author) 1989, he became the youngest ever editor of "Punch" magazine, a role he stayed in for three years. Tom Cain (author) David Thomas (born 17 January 1959 in Moscow), better known by the pen name Tom Cain, is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels about protagonist Samuel Carver. For the first few years of his life he lived in Moscow and has also lived in Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. Cain spent 25 years as a journalist, working for publications such as "The Daily Mail" and "The Mail on Sunday". He was mocked in "Private