SOURCE: “Bridget Creator Finds Fertile Ground in LA,” in Los Angeles Times, February 22, 2000, p. E1.

In this interview, Fielding and Miller discuss female identity, moving to America, and the continued success of Bridget Jones's Diary.

For the record, Helen Fielding had zero alcohol units and zero cigarettes at a Sunset Boulevard lunch, during which there was no calorie counting and no boyfriend talk.

In other words, the bestselling novelist is not Bridget Jones incarnate, even if some people do mistakenly call her by her 30-something heroine's name, and despite the fact she has just had a very Bridget-like experience with the roof of her new Hollywood house springing leaks in the manner of a garden hose ravaged by a great Dane.

“I am sure it will all be sorted out soon,” Fielding said with the kind of optimism she admires in Californians.

Fielding, whose second diary, Bridget Jones...