[1] The book plays a key role in the plot of the American film Sex and the City.

[2] The book includes love letters written by Roman poet Ovid, explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, poet Robert Browning, short story writer Edgar Allan Poe, novelist Mark Twain, mathematician Lewis Carroll, physicist Pierre Curie, playwright George Bernard Shaw, adventurer Jack London, Admiral Robert Peary, President Woodrow Wilson, poet Lord Byron, poet John Keats, philosopher Voltaire, King Henry VIII of England, President George Washington, Emperor Napoleon I of France, painter Vincent van Gogh, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and composer Ludwig van Beethoven, among others.

It also includes biographical information about the writers and recipients, the circumstances and relationships that led to the letters, and explanations of what occurred in the years following the correspondence.

[3] The book of love letters written by great men throughout history was originally created as a prop for the Sex and the City film[4] but was published in response to fan demand.

[6] On November 25, 2008, St. Martin's Press published a book entitled Love Letters of Great Women edited by Ursula Doyle, which it says was also inspired by the Sex and the City movie.