Helen Fielding
"I like you very much. Just as you are."
Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is an English author, best known as the author of the novel Bridget Jones's Diary (winner of the 1998 British Book of the Year award) and its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
She began writing for the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Independent, which first published the anonymous column that became the novel Bridget Jones’s Diary. Along with its sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, it has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and been adapted into two extremely successful films.
Fielding graduated from St. Anne's College, University of Oxford with an English degree, and worked in television journalism for several years, including a stint as a researcher on Noel Edmonds's The Late, Late Breakfast Show in the mid-1980s,[1] before writing her first novel, Cause Celeb. The director of the film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary, Sharon Maguire, appeared in the column/book as one of Bridget's friends, 'Shazzer'.
She began writing for the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Independent, which first published the anonymous column that became the novel Bridget Jones’s Diary. Along with its sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, it has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and been adapted into two extremely successful films.
Fielding graduated from St. Anne's College, University of Oxford with an English degree, and worked in television journalism for several years, including a stint as a researcher on Noel Edmonds's The Late, Late Breakfast Show in the mid-1980s,[1] before writing her first novel, Cause Celeb. The director of the film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary, Sharon Maguire, appeared in the column/book as one of Bridget's friends, 'Shazzer'.
