Legendary Authors

British author Fay Weldon, known for novels including The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil, has died, her family said on Wednesday. She was 91. Weldon was a playwright, screenwriter and a prolific novelist, producing 30 novels as well as short stories and plays written for television, radio and the stage. She was one of the writers on the popular 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs," receiving an award from the Writers Guild of America for the show's first episode. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fay Weldon (CBE), author, essayist and playwright. She died peacefully this morning January 4, 2023," her family said in a statement released by her agent. Much of Weldon's fiction explored issues surrounding women's relationships with men, children, parents and each other, including the 1971 Down Among The Women and Female Friends," published in 1975. The Life and Loves Of a She-Devil was the story of an ugly woman who alters her body and her life to seek revenge o

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