Editing Joy Fielding

{{short description|Canadian novelist and actress|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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* ''[[Kiss Mommy Goodbye]]''
* ''[[See Jane Run]]''
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'''Joy Fielding''' (née '''Tepperman'''; born March 18, 1945) is a Canadian novelist and actress. She lives in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]].

==Biography==
Born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], she graduated from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1966, with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[English Literature]]. As Joy Tepperman, she had a brief acting career, appearing in the film ''[[Winter Kept Us Warm]]'' (1965) and in an episode of ''[[Gunsmoke]]''. She later changed her last name to Fielding (after [[Henry Fielding]]) and began writing novels.

Fielding is also the screenwriter of the television film ''[[Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story]]''.

In the 1980s, she was also a regular contributor of book reviews to [[Jack Farr (broadcaster)|Jack Farr]]'s [[CBC Radio One|CBC Radio]] program ''[[The Radio Show]]''.

==Personal==
At the age of 8, Tepperman wrote her first story and sent it into a local magazine, and at age 12 sent in her first TV script, however both were rejected. She had a brief acting career, eventually giving it up to write full-time in 1972.<ref name="ReferenceA">Wagner, Vit. "Okay With Being 'Popular'; Author Not In The Same League as Joan Didion, But She's Writing the Books She Wants to Write." Toronto Star 28 Mar 2008: E.9. Print.</ref>  She has published 30 novels and 1 Novella (as of September 2022), two of which were converted into film. Fielding's process of having an idea to the point the novel is finished generally takes a year, the writing itself taking four to eight months.<ref name="joyfielding.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.joyfielding.com/ |title=Home |website=joyfielding.com}}</ref>

Fielding sets most of her novels in American cities such as [[Boston]] and [[Chicago]]. She has said that she prefers to set her novels in "big American cities, [as the] landscape seems best for [her] themes of urban alienation and loss of identity."<ref name="joyfielding.com"/>

Fielding is a Canadian citizen. Her husband is noted Toronto attorney, Warren Seyffert.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8015863&ticker=TCK/B:CN|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141223043406/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8015863&ticker=TCK/B:CN|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 23, 2014|title = Stocks}}</ref><ref>Wherry, Aaron. "Author has the world at her doorstep: Joy Fielding: Novelist." National Post 06 Sep 2003, Toronto ed: TO.2. Print.</ref> They have two daughters, Annie and Shannon,<ref name=wong>Wong, Jan. "Home is where the sales aren't for this Canadian novelist." ''The Globe and Mail'' 12 Mr. 1998, Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies, ProQuest. Web. 26 Oct. 2010</ref>  and own property in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], as well as [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], [[Florida]].<ref name="joyfielding.com"/>

==Interview==
Fielding had an interview with the ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'' in 2007, just after her publication of ''Heartstopper''. She enjoys catching readers off guard with the endings of her stories, but insists that it "isn't what her fiction is about",<ref>Wigod, Rebecca. "Plot-Meister Says That For Her, It's Mostly About Character." The Vancouver Sun 28 Apr 2007, final ed: C.9. Print.</ref> but rather more about the development of her characters.

Discussing her novels with the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' in 2008, she said "I might not write fiction in the literary sense.  But I write very well.  My characters are good. My dialog is good. And my stories are really involving. I'm writing exactly the kind of books I like to write.  And they're the kind of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are."<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

==Audience==

Fielding has been noted as a novelist who is more popular in the United States and foreign countries, rather than in her native Canada. For example, the novel ''[[Kiss Mommy Goodbye]]'' was more popular in the States, and ''[[See Jane Run]]'' in Germany.<ref name=wong/> In addition, she had an American agent and publisher, although she has now switched to a Canadian publisher.<ref name=wong />

==Bibliography==
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*''The Best of Friends'' (1972) – Novel
*''The Transformation'' (1976) – Novel
*''Trance'' (1979) – Novel
*''[[Kiss Mommy Goodbye]]'' (1981) – Novel
*''The Other Woman'' (1983) – Novel
*''Life Penalty'' (1984) – Novel
*''The Deep End'' (1986) – Novel
*''Good Intentions'' (1989) – Novel
*''[[See Jane Run]]'' (1991) – Novel
*''Tell Me No Secrets'' (1993) – Novel
*''Don't Cry Now'' (1995) – Novel
*''Missing Pieces'' (1997) – Novel
*''The First Time'' (2000) – Novel
*''Grand Avenue'' (2001) – Novel
*''Whispers and Lies'' (2002) – Novel
*''Lost'' (2003) – Novel
*''Puppet'' (2005) – Novel
*''Mad River Road'' (2006) – Novel
*''Heartstopper'' (2007) – Novel
*''Charley's Web'' (2008) – Novel
*''Still Life'' (2009) – Novel
*''The Wild Zone'' (2010) – Novel
*''Home Invasion'' (2011) – Novella
*''Now You See Her'' (2011) – Novel
*''Shadow Creek'' (2012) – Novel
*''Someone Is Watching'' (2015) – Novel
*''She's Not There'' (2016) – Novel
*''The Bad Daughter'' (2018) – Novel (a.k.a. ''Bleeding Hearts'')
*''All The Wrong Places'' (2019) – Novel
*''Cul-de-sac'' (2021) – Novel
*''The Housekeeper'' (2022) – Novel
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==References==
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* {{IMDb title|1143152|The Other Woman}}

==External links==
*[http://www.joyfielding.com/ Official homepage]

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