Helen Fielding - Bibliography

Novelist, born in Morley, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. She studied at Oxford University, then worked in newspaper and television journalism, producing documentaries in Africa for Comic Relief. This provided her with the inspiration for her first work of fiction, Cause Celeb (1994). However, it was her comic novel Bridget Jones's Diary (1996, filmed 2001) - originally a weekly newspaper column about the fictional life of a single woman - that brought her enormous success. A sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason appeared in 2000 (filmed 2004), and Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination in 2003. In 2005 she revived her Bridget Jones's Diary weekly column for The Independent newspaper.

Helen Fielding (born February 19 [1958]] in Morley, West Yorkshire) is an English author, best known as the author of the novel Bridget Jones's Diary and its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason

The Bridget Jones books had their origins in a column published in The Independent and The Daily Telegraph in 1997 and 1998.

Fielding graduated from St. Anne's College, University of Oxford with an English degree, and worked in television journalism for several years before writing her first novel, Cause Celeb. The director of the film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary, Sharon Maguire, also appeared in the column/book as one of Bridget's friends, 'Shazzer'.

In February 2004, she gave birth to her first child, a boy named Dashiell Michael, with longtime boyfriend Kevin Curran, a writer for The Simpsons.

Bibliography

Olivia Joules and The Overactive Imagination (2004) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999) Bridget Jones's Guide to Life (2001) Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) Cause Celeb (1994) Who's Had Who, in Association with Berk’s Rogerage, an Historical Rogister Containing Official Lay Lines of History from the Beginning of Time to the Present Day (1987;