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Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' (1996) and '' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name achieved worldwide success. In a survey conducted by ''The Guardian'' newspaper, ''Bridget Jones’s Diary'' was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century. In November 2012, Fielding announced she had begun writing the third instalment in the Bridget Jones series.〔("Helen Fielding begins Edge of Reason follow-up" ). BBC News. Retrieved 12 November 2012〕〔("Helen Fielding to write new Bridget Jones novel" ). Telegraph. Retrieved 12 November 2012〕 ''Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy'' was published in Autumn 2013 with first-day sales in the UK exceeding 46,000 copies.〔("Bridget Jones: first-day sales 'topped 46,000'" ). The Bookseller. Retrieved 14 November 2014〕 It was the second biggest selling novel of 2013 in the UK,〔("Helen Fielding put Bridget Jones Back on the Shelf" ). The London Evening Standard. Retrieved 17 November 2014〕 occupied the number one spot on the ''Sunday Times'' bestseller list for a total of 26 weeks and has sold over two million copies in 36 countries. In her review for The New York Times Book Review, Sarah Lyall called the novel 'sharp and humorous' and said that Fielding had 'allowed her heroine to grow up into someone funnier and more interesting than she was before.'〔("Will Have Small Glass of Wine" ).〕 ==Biography== Fielding was born on 19 February 1958, and grew up in Morley, West Yorkshire, a textile town on the outskirts of Leeds in the north of England. Her father was Managing Director of a textile factory, next door to the family home, that produced cloth for miners’ donkey jackets. He died in 1982 and her mother, Nellie, still lives in Yorkshire. Fielding attended Wakefield Girls' High School, one of the Grammar Schools in the Wakefield Grammar School Foundation. She has three siblings, Jane, David and Richard. Fielding studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford and was part of the Oxford revue at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival, forming a continuing friendship with a group of comic performers and writers including Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson.〔Jack Boozer (2008) ''Authorship in film adaptation'' p.286. University of Texas Press, 2008〕 Fielding began work at the BBC in 1979 as a regional researcher on the news magazine ''Nationwide''. She progressed to working as a production manager on various children’s and light entertainment shows. In 1985 Fielding produced a live satellite broadcast from a refugee camp in Eastern Sudan for the launch of ''Comic Relief''. She also wrote and produced documentaries in Africa for the first two ''Comic Relief'' fundraising broadcasts. In 1989 she was a researcher on the Thames TV documentary “Where Hunger is a Weapon” about the Southern Sudan rebel war. These experiences formed the basis for her first novel, ''Cause Celeb''. From 1990 - 1999 she worked as a journalist and columnist on several national newspapers, including ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Independent'' and ''The Telegraph''. Her best-known work, ''Bridget Jones's Diary'', began its life as an anonymous column in ''The Independent'' in 1995. The success of the column led to two novels and their film adaptations. Fielding was part of the scriptwriting team for both. Fielding divides her time between London and Los Angeles. She and Kevin Curran, a writer/executive producer on ''The Simpsons'', began a relationship about 1999 and Fielding has two children by him: Dashiell, born in February 2004, and Romy, born in July 2006. However, she and Curran broke up in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bridget Jones Author Fielding a 'singleton' )〕 In 2014 Fielding was one of twenty writers on ''The Sunday Times'' list of Britain's 500 Most Influential〔("Britain's 500 Most Influential ). The Sunday Times. Retrieved 19 November 2014〕 and was also featured on the London Evening Standard's 1,000 Most Influential Londoners list.〔("The 1000 - London's most influential people 2014: The Arts" ). The London Evening Standard. Retrieved 17 November 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Fielding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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