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
Julian Birkinshaw Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Birkinshaw is the author of four books on management. His first book, "Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm", published in 2000, was reviewed by William G. Egelhoff of Fordham University in the "Journal of International Business Studies". His fourth book, "Becoming a Better Boss: Why Good Management is So Difficult", published in 2013, was reviewed in the "Financial Times" and the "MIT Sloan Management Review". In 2012, Birkinshaw was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). He is also a Fellow the Academy