Sex and the City (book) version of herself, Carrie Bradshaw. Bushnell's prequel pair of novels, "The Carrie Diaries" (2010) and "Summer and the City" (2011), were adapted into a 2013-2014 TV series on The CW network. Sex and the City (book) Sex and the City is a collection of essays by Candace Bushnell based on her and her friends' lifestyles. It was first published in 1997, and re-published in 2001, 2006, and in 2008 as a 10th anniversary movie tie-in edition. The book is an anthology of columns that Bushnell began writing in 1994 for "The New York Observer". The book was loosely adapted into
Carrie Bradshaw when she was 22. She tells Charlotte that she lost her virginity in Seth Bateman's smelly rec room on the ping pong table in eleventh grade. In Season 6 ("Boy Interrupted"), Carrie meets up with another boyfriend from high school named Jeremy (David Duchovny). Carrie states that she never had sex with him because they were young and wanted to wait. A TV series was made after the production of "Sex and the City", called "The Carrie Diaries" which featured Carrie's life as a teenager prior to her life in "Sex and the City". It focused mainly on Carrie who