Candace Bushnell
1958
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 an innovative Fuel Cell used on NASA’s Apollo II. 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 decided to move to New York as a 19-year-old, where she spent most of her time at Studio 54. The accomplished relationships writer, got married to Charles Askegard, a man she had met only eight weeks before. Askegard was New York City Ballet dancer, and despite being ten years younger than her, their marriage lasted for 10 years between 2002 and 2012. She currently commutes between her two homes in New York and Roxbury, Connecticut.