Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer, mostly of romance novels.[1] Her novels are typically set on and around Nantucket Island, where she resides.[2] She 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.[3][4]

In 2019, New York Magazine called Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads".[5] ABC is adapting Hilderbrand's Paradise Trilogy into a TV series starring Ellen Pompeo.[6]

Biography

Hilderbrand 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.

In 1995, Hilderbrand married Chip Cunningham at the Chanticleer in Siasconset, Massachusetts; they divorced in 2015.[9] They have three children together.[10] She had a double mastectomy in June 2014.[11]

Bibliography

• The Hotel Nantucket (2022; ISBN 978-0-316-25867-8)
• The Sixth Wedding: A 28 Summers Story (2021; ISBN 978-0-316-30917-2)
• 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)
• Summer of '79: A Summer of '69 Story (2020; ISBN 978-0-316-54180-0)
• What Happens in Paradise (2020; ISBN 978-0-316-43557-4)
• Summer of '69 (2019; ISBN 978-0-316-42001-3)[12]
• Winter in Paradise (2018; ISBN 978-0-316-43551-2)[13]
• 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)
• The Tailgate: An Original Short Story (2014; ISBN 978-0-316-37616-7)
• Beautiful Day (2013; ISBN 978-0-316-09976-9)
• The Surfing Lesson: An Original Short Story (2013; ISBN 978-0-316-24286-8)
• 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)

References

External links

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• Elin Hilderbrand at IMDb