Helen Fielding
| Helen Fielding | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 February 1958 Morley, West Yorkshire, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| Genre | Chick lit |
| Notable works | Bridget Jones's Diary |
| Partner | Kevin Curran (1999-2009) |
| Children | Dashiell Curran Romy Curran |
Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love.
Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name achieved international success. In a survey conducted by The Guardian newspaper, Bridget Jones’s Diary was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy was published in autumn 2013 with first-day sales in the UK exceeding 46,000 copies. It was the second biggest selling novel of 2013 in the UK, occupied the number one spot on The Sunday Times bestseller list for a total of 26 weeks and has sold over two million copies in 36 countries. In her review for The New York Times review, Sarah Lyall called the novel "sharp and humorous" and said that Fielding had "allowed her heroine to grow up into someone funnier and more interesting than she was before". September 2016 saw the release of the third movie: Bridget Jones's Baby. On 11 October 2016, Fielding will publish her sixth novel, Bridget Jones' Baby: the Diaries based on Fielding's original columns in The Independent newspaper. The publishers are Alfred J. Knopf in the US and Vintage in the UK.
Fielding was born on 19 February 1958, and grew up in Morley, West Yorkshire, a textile town on the outskirts of Leeds in the north of England. Her father was managing director of a textile factory, next door to the family home, that produced cloth for miners’ donkey jackets. He died in 1982 and her mother, Nellie, still lives in Yorkshire. Fielding attended Wakefield Girls' High School, one of the Grammar Schools in the Wakefield Grammar School Foundation. She has three siblings, Jane, David and Richard. Fielding studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford and was part of the Oxford revue at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival, forming a continuing friendship with a group of comic performers and writers including Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson.
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