Candace Bushnell Biography

Candace Bushnell is an American author, journalist, and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer (1994–96) that was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and two subsequent movies.

Bushnell followed the best-selling work with the internationally bestselling novels 4 Blondes (2001), Trading Up (2003), Lipstick Jungle (2005), One-Fifth Avenue (2008), The Carrie Diaries (2010) and Summer and the City (2011).

Two of her novels have been adapted for television: Lipstick Jungle (2008–09) on NBC and The Carrie Diaries (2013-2014) on The CW. One-Fifth Avenue has been optioned by the Mark Gordon Company and ABC for another television show.

Candace Bushnell Age

Candace Bushnell is an American author, journalist, and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer that was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. She was born on December 1, 1958 (age 60 years), Glastonbury, CT.

Candace Bushnell Personal life

Bushnell was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Calvin L. Bushnell and Camille Salonia. Her father was one of the inventors of the Air-Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell that was used in the Apollo space missions in the 1960s.

Her Bushnell ancestors in the United States can be traced back to Francis Bushnell, one of the signatories of the Guilford Covenant, who emigrated from Thatcham, Berkshire, England in 1639. Bushnell’s mother was of Italian descent.

While attending high school in Glastonbury, Candace was accompanied to her senior prom by Mike O’Meara, now a nationally syndicated radio host, who also dated Candace’s sister, “Lolly.

She attended Rice University and New York University. She moved to New York in the late 1970s and often frequented Studio 54. In 1995, she met publishing executive Ron Galotti, who became the inspiration for Sex and The City’s Mr. Big.

From 2002 to 2012, Bushnell was married to Charles Askegard, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet who was ten years her junior, and whom she had met eight weeks before.

They decided to divorce in 2011. She found the experience disorienting, telling The Guardian, “When I got divorced, I couldn’t get a mortgage; I didn’t fit into a computer model. All of a sudden, I was invited to no more couple things. Being single is hard and there’s something a bit heroic about it.” She has no children.

Candace Bushnell Middle Age Love

Candace, 60(as of 2019) is dating real estate agent Jim Coleman for the last two years. She explained about love at a mature age:

“At this age you want someone to be nice, you don’t want someone who’s critical or demeaning. It feels like when one is younger there can be this competition between partners. Maybe that’s part of the sexual attraction, but that kind of stuff just doesn’t work when you get older.”

She continued:
“I think romance is something where you’re not in a rush to get to the end. It’s just about enjoying each other’s company. It’s doing things together.”

Candace Bushnell Married

The celebrated author was married to ballet dancer Charles Askegard for a decade. The couple split in 2012. They have no children together. Talking about her regrets at not having kids, Candace said:

“When I was in my 30s and 40s, I didn’t think about it. Then when I got divorced and I was in my 50s, I started to see the impact of not having children and of truly being alone. I do see that people with children have an anchor in a way that people who have no kids don’t.”

Her new book titled Is there still sex in the City? is due to release on August 2019.

The inspiration for the book is her real-life relocation to the Hamptons along with several of her friends.

She said that she feels sad at putting her career ahead of having children.

She feels truly alone now. Candace felt the pangs for motherhood when her 2012 divorce was getting finalized. Fox News has reported on this book:

“The book, which drops in August, deals with what Bushnell calls “middle-aged sadness,” along with the new obstacles women face once they turn 50. And according to Deadline, the heavily anticipated book is already being adapted into a television series.”

Candace Bushnell Sex And The City

Sex and the City is a collection of essays by Candace Bushnell based on her and her friends’ lifestyles. It was first published in 1997 and re-published in 2001, 2006, and in 2008 as a 10th-anniversary movie tie-in edition.

The book is an anthology of columns that Bushnell began writing in 1994 for The New York Observer. The book was loosely adapted into a long-running HBO television series also called Sex and the City (1998–2004) which in turn spawned a 2008 film of the same name and a 2010 sequel written under the fictional version of herself, Carrie Bradshaw.

In Is There Still Sex in The City? Bushnell looks at love and life from all angles—marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all. This is a pull-no-punches social commentary and an indispensable companion to one of the most revolutionary dating books of the twentieth century.

Candace Bushnell Career

At the age of 19, Bushnell moved to New York City and sold a children’s story (which was never published) to Simon & Schuster. She continued writing and worked as a freelance journalist for various publications, struggling to make ends meet for many years. Bushnell began writing for The New York Observer in 1993.

She created a humorous column for the paper (1994–96). Called “Sex and the City,” the column was based on her own personal dating experiences and those of her friends.

In 1997, Bushnell’s columns were published in an anthology, also called Sex and the City, and soon after became the basis for the popular HBO television series sharing the same name.

The series aired from 1998 through 2004, and starred Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, a socially active New York City sex and lifestyles columnist, a character whom Bushnell has stated was her alter ego. The series is now in syndication and was made into two film adaptations, released in 2008 and 2010.

In 2005, Bushnell served as one of three judges for the reality television show Wickedly Perfect on CBS. Bushnell began hosting a live weekly talk show on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2007. The show, called “Sex, Success, and Sensibility,” was canceled in late 2008 after the merger of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio, when Bushnell was asked to continue the show with a 50% pay cut and refused.

 She is the winner of the 2006 Matrix Award for books and a recipient of the Albert Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award. In 2009 she wrote a web series, The Boardroom, a comedic series about women over 40 dealings with workplace issues, starring Jennie Garth which was created in partnership with the magazine publisher Meredith Corporation’s Meredith 360 division.

Bushnell’s 2005 novel, Lipstick Jungle, was adapted for television and aired on NBC in 2008. The series Lipstick Jungle starred Brooke Shields in the leading role and was canceled after 20 episodes. In 2009, she wrote articles for Meredith’s More magazine.

Bushnell was contracted by HarperCollins in 2008 to write a series of two books for young adults, about the high school years of Sex and the City character Carrie Bradshaw. The first of these, The Carrie Diaries, was published in April 2010. The other, Summer and the City (Carrie Diaries Series #2), was published on April 2011.

Candace Bushnell Net Worth

Candace Bushnell is an American author and producer who has a net worth of $40 million dollars. Born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, in 1958, Candace Bushnell studied at Rice University in Texas and at New York University. She sold her first children’s story to a publisher when she was 19 years old.

Bushnell continued to pursue her writing career and landed a job penning a humor column for the “New York Observer” in the early ’90s. The column, “Sex and the City”, was based on Bushnell’s dating and social life.

Within a few years, the columns were turned into an anthology and inspired the HBO TV series “Sex and the City” starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon.

Bushnell has since written “4 Blondes”, “Trading Up”, “Lipstick Jungle”, “One-Fifth Avenue”, “The Carrie Diaries”, and “Summer and the City”. Her novel, “Lipstick Jungle”, was also adapted for a TV show that starred Brooke Shields.

In 2005, she judged the reality show “Wickedly Perfect” and, two years later, began hosting her own talk show on Sirius Satellite Radio called “Sex, Success, and Sensibility”.

Bushnell’s eighth book, “Killing Monica”, is due out in early 2015. She married to New York City Ballet dancer Charles Askegard in 2002, though they are now divorced.