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Helen Fielding

The English author Helen Fielding was born the 19. February 1959 in Morly, in West Yorkshire. She now lives in London. In her early years she went to schools like Wakefield Girls High School in England and St. Anne’s College in Oxford, where she got an English degree.

For several years she worked as a journalist on television and she worked on a television program named “The Late, Late Breakfast Show” in the eighties. Before her first novel Cause Celeb was published, she was dating Primetime Emmy Award –winner Richard Curtis.

In 2004 she got her first baby named Dashiell Michael, with a boyfriend named Kevin Curran. Her second baby was a girl. She was born in 2006. In 2000 Fielding appeared in an episode of The Simpsons, “A star is born-again”.

Helen has written series and novels. It has also been made films of “Bridget Jone’s diary” and “The edge of reason”. “Bridget Jone’s diary” was the one she got most attention for. The book is about Bridget Jone’s life. She writes about her family, her carrier, relationships and so on. The book has been made as a diary and it was published in 1996 in London. This novel was based on Jane Austen novel “Pride and Prejudice”. The other one “The edge of reason” was published in 1999. You can also see “Bridget Jone’s life” and “The edge of reason” on film.

Novels she has written are “Cause Celeb” and “Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination”. “Cause Celeb” was published in 1994 and is about a woman called Rosie Richardson. She decides to move to Africa after a breakup. “Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination” was published in 2004. The novel is a thriller and it’s about a freelance journalist named Olivia Joules. She meets a cute guy called Pierre Feramo and thinks of herself as terrorist and stalks Feramo around the world.

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