A British screenwriter and novelist, who wrote more than 30 novels and multiple television scripts, across a career spanning 50 years. Fay Weldon’s screenwriting career began in the 1960s by penning stories for such anthology series as ITV’s Play of the Week (1966-1967), Armchair Theatre (1967-1971) and Playhouse (1968-1972) and the BBC’s Thirty-Minute Theatre (1966-1972) and The Wednesday Play (1967-1969). She also wrote episodes for such hit series as Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-1973) and Pride and Prejudice (1980). Her best known novel, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, was adapted into a television mini-series in 1986 and won three BAFTAs, and was later adapted into a film, She-Devil (1989). Screen adaptations of her novels The Cloning of Joanna May (1992), The President’s Child (1992) and Puffball: The Devil’s Eyeball (2007) followed. She was appointed CBE in 2001.
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