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 Franklin (author) South. It encompasses an America rebuilding after World War II, battling over prohibition, redefining ideas of race and gender -- an America as tumultuous as the Mississippi River swelling against the levees straining to keep it at bay... it is a story of renewal and redemption. The levees broke on Good Friday of 1927, making this historic event the ideal impetus for a narrative about the flow and resilience of living and of life beginning anew". Tom Franklin (author) Thomas Gerald Franklin (born July 7, 1963) is an American writer originally from Dickinson, Alabama, United States, "a town of around