The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.

In 1997 Bushnell's columns were publiCandace Bushnelld in an anthology also called Sex and the City and soon after became the basis for the popular HBO television series sharing the same name. While attending high school in Glastonbury Candace was accompanied to her senior prom by Mike O'Meara now a nationally syndicated radio host who also dated Candace's sister "Lolly". Bushnell began writing for the New York Observer in 1993.

Sex and the City publiCandace Bushnelld in 1996 was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Candace Bushnell (born December 1 1958) is an American author and columnist based in New York City. Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed international best-selling author of Sex and the City Summer and the City The Carrie Diaries One Fifth Avenue Lipstick Jungle Trading Up and Four Blondes.