Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand
Born	(1969-07-17) July 17, 1969 (age 55) Collegeville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Author
Language	English
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University
Genre	Fiction, romance

Elin Hilderbrand (born July 17, 1969) is an American writer, mostly of romance novels. Her novels are typically set on and around Nantucket, where she resides. ^{[1] [2] [3]} In 2019, New York magazine called her "the queen of beach reads". ^[4]

Early life and education

Born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Hildebrand spent her summers on Cape Cod, "playing touch football at low tide, collecting sea glass, digging pools for hermit crabs, swimming out to the wooden raft off shore", until her father died in a plane crash when she was 16. She spent the next summer working, doing piecework in a factory that made Halloween costumes; she promised herself that the goal for the rest of her life would be to always have a real summer. ^[5]

Hildebrand later studied at Johns Hopkins University and was a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. ^{[6] [7]}

Career

Hilderbrand moved to Nantucket in 1993, working as a "classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later taking up writing. ^[5]

Her first novels, starting in 2000, were published by St. Martin's Press. ^[8] Since Barefoot in 2007, they have been published by Little, Brown and Company.

Her 2018 book The Perfect Couple, which was her first murder mystery,^{[ citation needed ]} was adapted by Netflix and released as a miniseries with the same name in 2024, starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson and Dakota Fanning.

Ellen Pompeo has been working with ABC to adapt Hilderbrand's Paradise Trilogy into a TV series in which she would star after her departure as the lead actress in Grey's Anatomy . ^[9]

Personal life

In 1995 Hilderbrand married Chip Cunningham at The Chanticleer in the Nantucket village of Siasconset. ^[10] They have three children, ^[11] and were divorced in 2015. ^[10]

Hilderbrand had a double mastectomy in 2014. ^[12]

Bibliography

Novels

• Swan Song (2024; ISBN   978-0-316-25887-6)
• The Five-Star Weekend (2023; ISBN   978-0-316-25877-7)
• The Hotel Nantucket (2022; ISBN   978-0-316-25867-8)
• Golden Girl (2021; ISBN   978-0-316-42008-2)
• Troubles in Paradise (2020; ISBN   978-0-316-43558-1)
• 28 Summers (2020; ISBN   978-0-316-42004-4)
• What Happens in Paradise (2020; ISBN   978-0-316-43557-4)
• Summer of '69 (2019; ISBN   978-0-316-42001-3) ^[13]
• Winter in Paradise (2018; ISBN   978-0-316-43551-2) ^[14]
• The Perfect Couple (2018; ISBN   978-0-316-37526-9)
• Winter Solstice (2017; ISBN   978-0-316-43545-1)
• The Identicals (2017; ISBN   978-1-473-61123-8)
• Winter Storms (2016; ISBN   978-0-316-44948-9)
• Here's To Us (2016; ISBN   978-0-316-37514-6)
• Winter Stroll (2015; ISBN   978-0-316-26113-5)
• The Rumor (2015; ISBN   978-0-316-33452-5)
• Winter Street (2014; ISBN   978-0-316-37611-2)
• The Matchmaker (2014; ISBN   978-0-316-09975-2)
• Beautiful Day (2013; ISBN   978-0-316-09976-9)
• Summerland (2012; ISBN   978-0-316-09983-7)
• Silver Girl (2011; ISBN   978-0-316-09966-0)
• The Island (2010; ISBN   978-0-316-04387-8)
• The Castaways (2009; ISBN   978-0-340-91980-4)
• A Summer Affair (2008; ISBN   978-0-316-01860-9)
• Barefoot (2007; ISBN   978-0-316-01859-3)
• The Love Season (2006; ISBN   0-312-36969-7)
• The Blue Bistro (2005; ISBN   978-0-312-99262-0)
• Summer People (2003; ISBN   978-0-312-99719-9
• Nantucket Nights (2002; ISBN   978-0-312-98976-7)
• The Beach Club (2000; ISBN   978-0-312-38242-1)

Short Stories

• The Sixth Wedding: A 28 Summers Story (2021; ISBN   978-0-316-30917-2)
• Summer of '79: A Summer of '69 Story (2020; ISBN   978-0-316-54180-0)
• The Tailgate: An Original Short Story (2014; ISBN   978-0-316-37616-7)
• The Surfing Lesson: An Original Short Story (2013; ISBN   978-0-316-24286-8)

References

1. Egan, Elisabeth (January 23, 2023). "Hilderbabes Take Nantucket". The New York Times . Retrieved February 26, 2023.
2. "for the ARTS record". The Nantucket Independent. June 13, 2007. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved November 24, 2008.
3. Hilderbrand, Elin (June 12, 2014). "The True Story This Fiction Writer Has to Tell Today". HuffPost . Retrieved February 26, 2023.
4. "How Elin Hilderbrand Became the 'Queen of Beach Reads'". The Cut. June 18, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
5. Elin Hilderbrand (June 23, 2011). "What I Know for Sure about Sand in My Sheets". Oprah. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
6. ""The Love Season" - (back flap)" . Retrieved November 24, 2008.
7. "A Summer Affair: A Novel". amazon.com. July 1, 2008. Retrieved November 24, 2008.
8. "How Hachette Grew Elin Hilderbrand". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
9. Otterson, Joe (January 25, 2021). "Ellen Pompeo to Produce Series Adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's 'Paradise' Novels at ABC". Variety. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
10. "Nantucket Today: The Queen of the Beach Reads". nantuckettodayonline.com. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
11. "Meet the Author: Elin Hilderbrand | South Shore Moms" . Retrieved June 4, 2021.
12. "Hilderbrand on double-mastectomy recovery". CBS News .
13. "Review of Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand". Kirkus Reviews. 2019.
14. "Review of Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand". Publishers Weekly. September 24, 2018.

External links

• Elin Hilderbrand at IMDb