Helen Fielding

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Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones. Fielding’s first novel was set in a refugee camp in East Africa and she started writing Bridget Jones in an anonymous column in London’s Independent newspaper. This turned into an unexpected hit, leading to four Bridget Jones novels and four films. Fielding credits the success of Bridget Jones to tapping into the gap between how we all feel we are expected to be and how we really are. Fielding's novel Bridget Jones's Diary became a global bestseller, published in more than 40 countries. Fielding continued to chronicle Bridget’s life in the novels Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones’s Baby: the Diaries and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy all of which became international bestsellers. The films chronicling these adventures – Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones’s Baby and Bridget Jones...

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