From left to right: Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.Photo:HBO/Getty
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Here is a guide to the books that helped bring Carrie Bradshaw to life.
‘Sex and the City’ (1996)
Hachette Book Group
A selection of Bushnell’s columns were published as the 1996 anthologySex and the City.“It’s about relationships and power and status and pecking order — which is something that everybody in New York understands because you live it every day,” Bushnell toldThe New York Timesof the book in 2018. “Everybody lives these little indignities.”
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‘The Carrie Diaries’ (2010)
HarperCollins Publishers
Ever wondered what Carrie’s life was like before the glitz and glamour of New York? Bushnell writes about it inThe Carrie Diaries, the young adult prequel novel that details Carrie’s high school years in a Connecticut small town.“Carrie is a woman who’s independent, who really cares about her friends, who’s willing to experience life and has a kind of joie de vivre,” Bushnell toldTeen Vogueof the book in 2010. “When you create a character, you always have a little bit of a backstory in your head. I just felt like there was something that had to have happened to her when she was young in order for her to develop inner fortitude.”
The Carrie Diarieswas also the inspiration for the shortlived CW series of the same name, which starredAnnaSophia RobbandAustin Butler.
‘Summer and the City’ (2011)
Thefollow-up toThe Carrie Diariessees Carrie making her way to Manhattan, where she enrolls in a writing class at The New School before beginning college at Brown University. She also meets future friends Samantha and Miranda in her eventful first summer in New York.
Speaking withEntertainment Weeklyin 2011, Bushnell said that writing younger versions of the soon-to-be iconic characters — and in ‘80s N.Y.C., no less — was particularly fun.
“I came to New York in the late 70’s when I was 19, so I put in a lot of things that were very, very true to that time,” the author said. “It informs the characters and the kind of women they become.”
source: people.com
