“I think that when you're writing
fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down
how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you
don't normally like to admit to.” – Helen Fielding
An English novelist and screenwriter, Fielding
is best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones and a
sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirty-something
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, and were followed by two award-winning
films of the same name that also 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.
Born on this date in 1958, Fielding gravitated
to writing at an early age and became a journalist right out of college, first
working for the BBC and then as both a journalist and columnist for most of the
major British newspapers before beginning her creative writing.
Helen Fielding
Bridget
Jones’s Diary, which ended up being the British Book of the
Year, actually began as a weekly column in the London newspaper The Independent, written much in the way
that you might make entries in a journal or diary.
Fielding credits
Bridget’s success to the fact that, at heart,
the story is about “the gap between how we feel we are expected to be
and how we actually are.” And, of
course, she says her use of humor makes it even more popular. “Comedy,” she said, “tends to come
out of things which are quite painful and serious.” Just reflecting life as you see it.
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