Peterfreund grew up near Tampa, Florida and graduated from Yale University in 2001 with a double major in literature and geology.
An avid traveler, Peterfreund lives with her husband and daughters near Washington, D.C.[1] Source:[3] Peterfreund's first book, Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel, details the second semester of Amy "Bugaboo" Haskell's junior year at Eli University, a thinly veiled Yale University clone, after she is tapped for Rose & Grave, a secret society that opens its ranks to women for the first time.
Eager to escape the wrath of a rival society on campus, Amy and the Knights are whisked off to Rose & Grave's private island off the coast of Florida in Rites of Spring (Break).
Going into the project, Peterfreund wrote, "My goal was always to remain as true to the script as possible, and to preserve the content, tone, and intent of the screenwriter."
[6] As McKenna had previously adapted Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada, Peterfreund "tried to think of how she'd translated the book into her medium, but backwards."