Candace Bushnell is the sex columnist who spawned what this summer has become one of HBO's best-rated sitcoms: "Sex and the City," starring Sarah Jessica Parker, a journey into Bushnell's 1990's Manhattan demimonde of models, investment bankers, designer G-strings and threesomes.
Candace Bushnell, a sex columnist and screenwriter
No one has ever confused Bushnell with Tolstoy, Jane Austen or even Mary McCarthy. On the other hand, her talent for capturing the mating rituals of the Bowery Bar crowd in her New York Observer "Sex and the City" column catapulted her out of the freelance world of the women's magazines, where she wrote about love and make-up, and into the lap of Disney, for whom she just finished a screenplay.
