Daughter of a naval officer, she became a journalist and a novelist. In 1947traveling in Congo as a journalist, she met a geologist named Vsevolod Sergeïvich de Goloubinoff. They fell in love and married and decided to write an historical novel and use the pseudonyms Anne and Serge Golon. Anne would write the text and Serge would do the research and both would sign the book as a team. The first one was published translated in West Germany in 1956 then later in France.