Elin Hilderbrand | |
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Born | Collegeville, Pennsylvania, U.S. | July 17, 1969
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 Island, where she resides. [1] [2] [3] In 2019, New York magazine called Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads". [4]
Hilderbrand was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. [5] [6] She 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 sixteen. 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. She moved to Nantucket in July 1993, took a job as "the classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later started writing. [7]
Her first novels were published by St. Martin's Press. [8] With A Summer Affair, published in 2008, she moved to Little, Brown and Company. The Perfect Couple, her first murder mystery, was published in 2018.
Actress Ellen Pompeo has been working with ABC in adapting Hilderbrand's Paradise Trilogy into a TV series where she would star after her departure as the lead on Grey's Anatomy . [9]
In 1995, Hilderbrand married Chip Cunningham at The Chanticleer in Siasconset, Massachusetts; they divorced in 2015. [10] They have three children together. [11] She had a double mastectomy in June 2014. [12]
Her novel The Perfect Couple will be adapted as a miniseries of the same name by television streaming service Netflix, starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, and Dakota Fanning. [13]
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