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 Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads".[4]

Biography

In 1969, Hilderbrand was born in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where she was also raised. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.[5] [6]

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.

In July 1993, Hilderbrand moved to Nantucket, taking a job as "the classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later started writing.[7]

In 1995, Hilderbrand married Chip Cunningham at The Chanticleer in Siasconset, Massachusetts.[8] They have three children together.[9]

Hilderbrand's first novels, starting in 2000, were published by St. Martin's Press.[10]

With Barefoot, published in 2007, she moved to Little, Brown and Company

Hilderbrand had a double mastectomy in June 2014.[11]

In 2015, Hilderbrand and Chip Cunningham divorced.[8]

The Perfect Couple, published in 2018, was her first murder mystery.

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.[12]

Her novel The Perfect Couple (2018) is being adapted as a miniseries of the same name by television streaming service Netflix, starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, and Dakota Fanning. Principal photography began in 2023, but no release date has yet been announced.[13]

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. Web site: "The Love Season" - (back flap) . 2008-11-24 .
  6. Web site: A Summer Affair: A Novel . amazon.com . 2008-11-24 . English . 2008-07-01 .
  7. News: What I Know for Sure about Sand in My Sheets . Oprah . Elin Hilderbrand . 2011-06-23 . 2013-04-26 .
  8. Web site: Nantucket Today: The Queen of the Beach Reads. 2021-06-04. nantuckettodayonline.com.
  9. Web site: Meet the Author: Elin Hilderbrand South Shore Moms. 2021-06-04. en-US.
  10. Web site: How Hachette Grew Elin Hilderbrand. PublishersWeekly.com. 2016-01-23.
  11. Web site: Hilderbrand on double-mastectomy recovery. .
  12. 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.
  13. Web site: Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning to Star in Netflix Limited Series ‘The Perfect Couple. Variety. 2023-04-03 .
  14. Web site: Review of Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand. 2019. Kirkus Reviews.
  15. Web site: Review of Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand. 24 September 2018. Publishers Weekly.

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