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 of International Business, and of the Advanced Institute of Management Research. Julian Birkinshaw Julian Birkinshaw, (born 16 October 1964) is a British academic. He is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, where he is the Academic Director of the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of four books on management. Julian Birkinshaw earned a BSc in Geology from Durham University, followed by a master in business administration and PhS from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario. Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School,