Helen Fielding is a British novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for creating the character Bridget Jones, who is featured in several Fielding novels and film adaptations.
Born in Morley, West Yorkshire, Fielding studied at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she earned a degree in English and performed as a member of the Oxford Revue. She published her first novel, Cause Celeb, in 1994 while working as a journalist for various publications, including The Independent and the BBC.
Fielding gained international recognition in 1996 with the publication of Bridget Jones's Diary, a romantic-comedic novel that chronicles the life of a single woman in London. The book was a huge success,...
