ALL THE LITTLE HOUSES by May Cobb - Texas Monthly 'The Author of ‘The Hunting Wives’ Loves Mean Girls'

Texas Monthly | January 1, 2026

Before last summer, May Cobb was the moderately successful author of a handful of East Texas–set thrillers. Now she’s riding the wave of a hit TV show about some of the cruelest women you’ve ever seen.

May Cobb always wanted to be a writer, but the bestseller list didn’t seem a likely destination. The 52-year-old Longview native’s early instincts were hardly commercial. She studied Victorian literature for her master’s at San Francisco State University, and her main passion project was a biography of the blind jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

Follow the link above to learn more.