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Helen Fielding

Londoner Helen Fielding, is a journalist, novelist, and author of the hilarious Bridget Jones's Diary (Viking, June 1, 1998.) "Bridget" began as a weekly newspaper column, became a runaway bestseller in the U.K. - garnering for its author the coveted British Book of the Year Award - and has since grown into a major international success. Her novel is soon to be made into a motion picture from the producers of "Four Weddings and a Funeral".

Bridget Jones's Diary (borrowed from the plot of Pride and Prejudice) charts a devastatingly self-aware, extremely entertaining year in the life of a thirty-something "Singleton" surrounded by "Smug-Marrieds". It is the laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement and "inner poise.

A 1979 graduate of Oxford, Helen Fielding worked in television for 10 years before writing a novel and becoming a feature writer at The Independent, where an editor asked her to base a column on her own life. She opted for an alter ego, and "Bridget" was born. Ms. Fielding continues to write a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph.

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