Candace Bushnell (born December 1, 1958) is an American author and columnist based in New York City. She is best known for writing a sex column that was turned into a book, Sex and the City, which became the basis of the immensely popular TV series, Sex and the City and its subsequent film release Sex and the City: The Movie. Bushnell married New York City ABT ballet artist Charles Askegaard on Read more...

Bushnell was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Upon dropping out of Rice University in the late 1970s, she was known all over New York as a party-goer and socialite. One of her favorite places was Studio 54{fact}. Later on in life, she got a job as a columnist in the New York Observer.

In 1994, her editor-in-chief asked her if she wanted to write a column for the paper, and she accepted the Read more...