Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell is an American novelist and television producer whose work has made New York social life, friendship, dating, and women’s independence recurring subjects in contemporary popular fiction. Her 1996 book Sex and the City became the basis for the HBO television series of the same name, later followed by two films; this adaptation helped bring her writing to an international audience.

Bushnell’s fiction returns to the pressures and possibilities of relationships, work, status, and self-fashioning. Her second novel, Four Blondes, is structured as four novellas and portrays the romantic and social lives of Manhattan’s elite with wry humor and frankness. Her subsequent books include Trading Up, Lipstick Jungle, One Fifth Avenue, and The Carrie Diaries. Lipstick Jungle and The Carrie Diaries were each adapted as network television series.

In 2006, Bushnell received a Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications. Alongside her fiction and screen-related work, she performs her one-woman show True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City; her official site lists U.S. performances scheduled for November 2026. Her official biography and book pages document a career that has moved between novels, television, and live performance.