Bulgari Connection eBook

Fay Weldon is one of the most esteemed and respected British authors. She was born in 1931 and spent part of her childhood in New Zealand, having returned to England at the age of ten. She studied Economics and Psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and worked for a brief period at the Foreign Office in London. Later, she dedicated herself to writing full-time, as a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She was president of the Booker Prize jury in 1983 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Andrews in 1990. She was a finalist for the Booker Prize in 1979 with Praxis, and won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award in 1996 with Wicked Women. In 2001, she was honored with the title of Commander of the British Empire. She lives in Dorset, England, with her husband, the poet Nick Fox.