坎迪斯·布什奈尔

坎迪斯·布什奈尔（Candace Bushnell，1958年12月1日—）是一位美国作家、记者和电视制片人。1994-96年期间，她的文章登上了纽约观察家报专栏，后来这些被改编成畅销书《欲望城市》。HBO电视剧《欲望城市》就是根据畅销书改编的。她还有其他两部小说被改编成电视剧，分别是在NBC上映的口红森林以及在CW电视网上映的凯莉日记。

Candace Bushnell (born December 1, 1958) 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 this with the international 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.

Early 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 used in the Apollo space missions in the 1960s. Her Bushnell ancestors in the U.S. can be traced to Francis Bushnell, a signatory of the Guilford Covenant, who emigrated from Thatcham, Berkshire, England, in 1639. Her mother was of Italian descent.

While attending Glastonbury High School, Candace was accompanied to her senior prom by Mike O'Meara, later 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 frequented Studio 54. In 1995, she met publishing executive Ron Galotti, who became the inspiration for Sex and the City's Mr. Big.

Career

At age 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 (1994–1996) called "Sex and the City", based on her 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 became the basis for the popular HBO television series of the same name. The series aired from 1998 to 2004, and starred Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, a socially active New York City sex and lifestyles columnist, a character whom Bushnell has said was her alter ego. The series entered syndication and was also made into two films: Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). A third film was announced in December 2016, but was canceled and replaced by the sequel miniseries And Just Like That…, on HBO Max. Bushnell went on to publish several international and The New York Times bestselling novels including Four Blondes, Trading Up, Lipstick Jungle and One Fifth Avenue.

In 2005, Bushnell served as one of three judges for the reality television show Wickedly Perfect on CBS. She 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. Bushnell won the 2006 Matrix Award for books, and the Albert Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award. In 2009 she wrote a comedic web series, The Broadroom, about women over 40 dealing with workplace issues. It starred Jennie Garth and 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 and ran for 20 episodes. In 2009, Bushnell wrote articles for Meredith's More magazine.