Hope for Depression Research Foundation, has announced that that iconic author, journalist and television producer Candace Bushnell has been named the Celebrity Grand Marshal for the Seventh Annual Race of Hope, which returns to Southampton this summer on August 7th.
HDRF Founding Chair Audrey Gruss and Arthur Dunnam, both Hamptons residents, will join Bushnell as Co-Grand Marshals of the 2022 Race. They will lead racers on a gorgeous loop around Lake Agawam in Southampton Village. The Race attracts over 500 participants from the tri-state area to raise mental health awareness and fund research. To learn more, please visit www.hopefordepression.org/events.
Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed, international best-selling author of ten books, including Is There Still Sex in the City, Sex and the City, Summer and the City, The Carrie Diaries, One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, Killing Monica and Four Blondes. Sex and the City, published in 1996, was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Lipstick Jungle became a popular television series on NBC, as did The Carrie Diaries on the CW. Is There Still Sex in the City? is currently in development as a TV series with Paramount. Most recently, Bushnell wrote and performs in her new one woman show, Is There Still Sex in the City?