Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Fay Weldon, best known for her 1983 novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, died on Wednesday at her Northampton, U.K., home at the age of 91, her son Dan Weldon has confirmed.
Weldon, who started her writing career in television, went on to publish 31 novels throughout her 55-year writing career. Her 1979 novel Praxis was nominated for the Booker Prize, and in 1989 she won the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize for her novel The Heart of the Country.