- Source of Wealth: Publishing, Film and Television
- Age: 61
- Birth Place: Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA
- Marital Status: Divorced (Charles Askegard)
- Full Name: Candace Bushnell
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: December 1, 1958
- Ethnicity: Italian, English and possibly other
- Occupation: Author
- Education: Rice University and New York University
Candace Bushnell is an American columnist and author with a net worth of about $40 million. She was born on the 1st of December 1958 in Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA. Candace Bushnell’s source of wealth are books as well as adaptations of these in film and television.
She is highly praised for being the bestselling international author of Sex and the City which was published in the year 1996. This was later collected in the anthology and thus the book became the beginning of the famous television series of the same name.
Candace Bushnell also wrote the book by the name Lipstick jungle on which the popular series by the same name was based on NBC. She has also produced a weekly talk show. Other books she has written are Killing Monica, Four Blondes, One-Fifth Avenue, Summer and the City, Trading Up, and Carrie Diaries. One-Fifth Avenue and Carrie Diaries were optioned by ABC and Mark Gordon Company for another Television show.