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Profile of Helen Fielding
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Helen Fielding |
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19th February 1958 |
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Morley, West Yorkshire, England, UK |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Helen Fielding (born February 19, 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British author, most known as the author of the novel Bridget Jones's Diary and its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
The Bridget Jones books had their origins in a column published in The Independent and The Daily Telegraph in 1997 and 1998. In August 2005, her weekly column was re-introduced to The Independent. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination was published in 2004, a spoof on the spy genre.
Fielding graduated from St. Anne's College, University of Oxford with an English degree, and worked in television journalism for several years before writing her first novel, Cause Celeb. She was for a time the girl-friend of screenwriter Richard Curtis, who went on to write Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and the Blackadder series. The director of the film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary, Sharon Maguire, also appeared in the column/book as one of Bridget's friends, 'Shazzer'. Fielding also remains close friends with the writer Nick Hornby.
In the early 2000s, Fielding appeared in an episode of The Simpsons.
In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
In February 2004, she gave birth to her first child, a boy named Daniel Michael, with longtime boyfriend Kevin Curran, a writer for The Simpsons.
Bibliography
- Olivia Joules and The Overactive Imagination (2004)
- Bridget Jones's Guide to Life (2001)
- Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason (1999)
- Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)
- Cause Celeb (1994)
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