Bushnell Sex And The City Analysis

Candace Bushnell is an American television producer and novelist best known for writing a series of chick lit novels. Her best known works are the Sex and the City novels which were adapted from the columns by the same name that she wrote for the New York Observer between 1994 and 1996. Candace was born to Camile Salonia and Calvin L. Bushnell in 1958 Glastonbury, Connecticut. Her father was something of a celebrity in her town having been an inventor of the Air Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell that the Apollo space mission of the 60s depended on. She can trace her ancestry to Francis Bushnell an immigrant from Berkshire, England that was a signatory to the Guilford Covenant. During her high school years, she dated Mike O’Meara of the host of the The Mike O'Meara Show turned podcast. After graduating from high school, she proceeded to Rice University and then New York University. She moved to New York City as a 19 year old where she spent most of her time at Studio 54. An accomplished relationships writer she got married to Charles Askegarda man she had …show more content…
Drawing from her notoriously candid and witty column in the New York observer, Candace writes of beautiful young women that go from clubs to bars to parties in packs. The leader of the pack is a quintessential young newspaper columnist who always seems to be seeking love in the worst of places. There is Mr. Big the wealthy businessmen who cannot seem to hold down a relationship for more than a few months and then there is the successful forty something year old Samantha Jones, a woman full of testosterone whose attitude towards sex is more manly than even that of real men. Then there are the minor characters such as the International Cray Girls, Bicycle Boys, and Psycho Mums who make New York the complex yet exciting city that it