Khelen Filding

Helen Fielding was born in the industrial town of Morley (Yorkshire, United Kingdom). Helen was the second of four children in the family of a mill manager and a housewife. She graduated from Oxford University, where she studied English language and literature at St Anne’s College. For ten years she worked in television at the BBC, was a television producer, and then worked as a journalist at a newspaper. It was then that Fielding began to try her hand at “serious” literature, but the romantic novel she submitted was rejected by Mills & Boon.

Her first book, the satirical novella Cause Celeb, was published in 1994. The novella was based on experiences the author gained while making documentary films in Africa. The novel, devoted to the pressing problems of modern society and the tragic condition of the local population in African countries, revealed the author’s many-sided, vivid talent. Helen Fielding gained wide recognition with the novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, which grew out of the column she wrote for The Independent. After the book’s noisy success came a sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and then a new book about the adventures of Helen Fielding’s new heroine, Olivia Joules, or the Voluptuous Virgin. In 2013, the third Bridget Jones book, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, was published in the United Kingdom and became a bestseller. At present, the author continues to write about Bridget Jones, and a new book is scheduled for release in October 2016.

As for her personal life, Helen Fielding has long divided her time between London and Los Angeles, where she had lived with Kevin Curran since 1999. The couple has two children, Dash (2004) and Romy (2006). However, they separated in 2009.