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
Jane Franklin (author) Jane Franklin (author) Jane Franklin is an American historian and scholar with a particular focus on Cuba–United States relations. Her 1992 book "The Cuban Revolution and the United States: A Chronological History" is regarded as encyclopedic, systematic, and based on "extremely wide-ranging research". She is a proponent of solidarity between the two nations and an advocate of the Cuban model of healthcare. In addition to Cuba, she has written about Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama. Her book "Vietnam and America: A Documented History", which she co-edited, was described by "The New York Times" as a "valuable anthology of crucial