Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter. She is best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Fielding was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. In December 2016, the BBC’s Woman’s Hour included BridgetJones as one of the seven women who had most influenced British female culture.
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Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter. She is best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones. Her first novel, Cause Celeb, was published in 1994 to great reviews but limited sales. She was struggling to make ends meet while working on her second novel, a satire about cultural divides in the Caribbean. In 1995 she was approached by London’s The Independent newspaper to write a column as herself about single life in London. The success of the column led to four novels and three film adaptations. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Fielding was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. In December 2016, the BBC’s Woman’s Hour included BridgetJones as one of the seven women who had most influenced British female culture over the last seven decades.
On 11 October 2016, and the publication of Fielding’s sixth novel, Bridget. Jones’ Baby: the Diaries based on Fielding’s original columns on which the movie — which broke UK box office records — was based. Fielding announced in November 2012 that she was now writing a third instalment of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in November 2013. The film of the same name was released in November 2014. The hardback of The Edge of Reason went straight to the top of the best-seller chart of the Sunday Times bestseller chart for six months.
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