Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character
Bridget Jones
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, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirty something
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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
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'' 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 record-breaking first-day sales in the UK exceeding 46,000 copies. It occupied the number one spot on ''
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'' bestseller list for six months. In her review for ''
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'' review,
Sarah Lyall
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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". Late 2016 saw the release of the third movie: ''Bridget Jones's Baby''. On 11 October 2016, and the publication of Fielding's sixth novel, ''Bridget Jones' Baby: the Diaries'' based on Fielding's original columns in ''The Independent'' newspaper on which the movie — which broke UK box office records — was based.
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. In December 2016, the BBC's ''
'' included Bridget Jones as one of the seven women who had most influenced British female culture over the last seven decades.
in the north of England. Her father was
of a textile factory, next door to the family home, that produced cloth for miners’
s. He died in 1982 and her mother, Nellie, remained in Yorkshire, passing away in September 2021.
Fielding attended
s in the Wakefield Grammar School Foundation. She has three siblings, Jane, David and Richard.
Fielding studied English at
, forming a continuing friendship with a group of comic performers and writers including
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