Carter Bays

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Carter Bays co-created the television series How I Met Your Mother, serving as co-showrunner for the entirety of its 9-year, 208-episode run. Before that, he was a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman and a producer for the animated series American Dad! His first novel, The Mutual Friend, was published by Dutton in 2022. Bays is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and an Associate Fellow of Davenport College at Yale University. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and holds a BA from Wesleyan University.