Helen Fielding
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Helen Fielding (born February 19, 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is an English author, best 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 by The Independent. A collection of the new columns is expected in late 2006.
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 girlfriend 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 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 Dashiell Michael, with longtime boyfriend Kevin Curran, a writer for The Simpsons. Their second child, a daughter, was born July 16, 2006. In the early 2000s, Fielding appeared in The Simpsons episode "A Star is Born-Again" as herself.
[edit] 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)
- Who's Had Who, in Association with Berk’s Rogerage, an Historical Rogister Containing Official Lay Lines of History from the Beginning of Time to the Present Day (1987; 1990 in US with first subtitle omitted) (with Simon Bell and Richard Curtis)
