Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter best known for creating the fictional character Bridget Jones.

Novelist

February 19, 1959

Pisces

66

Morley, Yorkshire, England

Helen Fielding, an English novelist and screenwriter, is best known for creating the fictional character Bridget Jones. Her most renowned work, “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” was published in 1996 and chronicles the life of a single working woman in London. The novel was immensely successful, selling over 15 million copies and inspiring a film series. Fielding has authored several sequels, such as “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” and “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” and contributed to the screenwriting for the related movies. Besides the Bridget Jones series, Fielding has written other books and worked on television shows like “The Vicar of Dibley” and “Maggie and Her.” She has received accolades for her work, including the British Book of the Year award in 1998 for “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”

An interesting fact about Helen Fielding is that while struggling financially during the writing of her second novel, she was approached by London’s The Independent newspaper to write a column about single life in London.