We met when we were both editorial assistants at Random House. May joked about having dated too many preacher’s sons; Anne commiserated, and a friendship was born. It’s not easy being a Christian in New York, and having support in the office was key.
People always ask us what it’s like to write with someone else. The answer: amazing. We bounce ideas off each other, help each other, and edit each other. We struggle together to create something new.
We’ve been through a lot in the four years we’ve known each other, but as our lives change, one thing has always remained the same. We are friends first, writing partners second.
People always ask us what it’s like to write with someone else. The answer: amazing. We bounce ideas off each other, help each other, and edit each other. We struggle together to create something new.
We’ve been through a lot in the four years we’ve known each other, but as our lives change, one thing has always remained the same. We are friends first, writing partners second.
May Vanderbilt grew up in Panama City, Florida, otherwise known as the Redneck Riviera. She graduated from Baylor University in Waco, TX and went on to get earn her MA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. After living in Brooklyn for four years and working at Random House as an Assistant Editor, Vanderbilt moved to fabulous San Francisco, putting an end to her long tour of undesirable cities. May is a Southern girl who is always on the search for decent grits in the Bay Area and makes artisanal cheese at home.
Anne Dayton was born in San Jose, California, where she wasted her childhood playing Nintendo and watching The Facts of Life. Eventually, she went off to Princeton where she learned many important things, including how to recognize a kumquat. Four years and a useless degree later, she landed a job at Random House, where she promptly got bored and applied to graduate school, trained for a marathon, and reminisced about her days as a competitive finswimmer. A few years later, a blond guy showed up at her door with power tools and gazpacho. They got married in September, 2005 and live in Brooklyn. Now an associate editor at a book publishing house, she enjoys bad horror movies, good cheese, and Count Chocula.
