Elin Hilderbrand Explained

Elin Hilderbrand
Birth Date:17 July 1969
Birth Place:Collegeville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Language:English
Genre:Fiction, romance
Occupation:Author
Alma Mater:Johns Hopkins University

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, 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

Short Stories

Notes and References

  1. News: Egan . Elisabeth . Hilderbabes Take Nantucket . 26 February 2023 . . 23 January 2023.
  2. News: The Nantucket Independent . 13 June 2007 . for the ARTS record . https://web.archive.org/web/20081120033905/http://www.nantucketindependent.com/news/2007/0613/the_arts/051.html . 2008-11-20 . 24 November 2008.
  3. News: Hilderbrand . Elin . The True Story This Fiction Writer Has to Tell Today . 26 February 2023 . . 12 June 2014 . en.
  4. Web site: How Elin Hilderbrand Became the 'Queen of Beach Reads' . The Cut . August 8, 2022 . June 18, 2019.
  5. News: What I Know for Sure about Sand in My Sheets . Oprah . Elin Hilderbrand . 2011-06-23 . 2013-04-26 .
  6. Web site: "The Love Season" - (back flap) . 2008-11-24 .
  7. Web site: A Summer Affair: A Novel . amazon.com . 2008-11-24 . English . 2008-07-01 .
  8. Web site: How Hachette Grew Elin Hilderbrand. PublishersWeekly.com. 2016-01-23.
  9. Web site: Otterson . Joe . 2021-01-25 . Ellen Pompeo to Produce Series Adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's 'Paradise' Novels at ABC . 2022-06-07 . Variety . en-US.
  10. Web site: Nantucket Today: The Queen of the Beach Reads. 2021-06-04. nantuckettodayonline.com.
  11. Web site: Meet the Author: Elin Hilderbrand South Shore Moms. 2021-06-04. en-US.
  12. Web site: Hilderbrand on double-mastectomy recovery. .
  13. Web site: Review of Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand. 2019. Kirkus Reviews.
  14. Web site: Review of Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand. 24 September 2018. Publishers Weekly.

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