Helen Fielding has the distinction among younger British novelists of having written an enormously popular book that has changed the English language and aroused an intense controversy over the needs and desires of modern women and the fate of...

Yorkshire-born Helen Fielding, 40, worked in television for 10 years before becoming a journalist and creating the heroine of thirtysomething singledom, Bridget Jones. She now lives in LA, writes full time and is currently working for Save the Children's Change the Odds campaign. ...

When author Helen Lenskyj showed her first book on women and sport to her former gym teacher, her teacher could not believe her eyes. "She practically fainted," says the Australian-born teacher and activist. Lenskyj, who lives in Toronto, was not the jock...

Sometimes, Michiko Kakutani gets tired of being Michiko Kakutani. Can you identify the imaginary alternative persona in each of the following passages? 1. "Dwight says 'dude' an awful lot, but boy, the guy is a real talker: he's got this voice that just grabs your...

This week, Everyone Worth Knowing, the second novel by Lauren Weisberger—she of best-selling The Devil Wears Prada fame—arrives in bookstores, the latest offering from the gods of chick-lit. Ms. Weisberger’s publisher, Simon and Schuster, paid over a million dollars at auction for Everyone Worth Knowing—a...

In the following review, Vincent unflatteringly describes the character of Bridget Jones as a “feminist.”

In the following review, Bernard focuses on Bridget's relevance to contemporary women.

In the following interview, Fielding discusses various aspects of her career.