Mem Fox: Hello. My name is Mem Fox. Very easy to pronounce, very easy to read, but it wasn't always Fox and it wasn't always Mem. Of course I was a different person when I wasn't married. I was somebody Partridge, and then I married a Fox. Everybody thought that was funny, but I did have a different first name for about the first 13 years of my life. In fact, I still have that name, it's my real name, but I didn't like that name, so what I did was this. I, with two of my friends, when I was about 13, decided to change my name to shorten it. My best friend was called Barbara and she became blah, my next best friend was called Caroline and she became cran, and I changed my first name to Mem and I've lived happily ever after.