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

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]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Five-Star Weekend (2023; ISBN 978-0316258777)
• 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) ^[14]
• Winter in Paradise (2018; ISBN  978-0-316-43551-2) ^[15]
• 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

External links

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• Elin Hilderbrand at IMDb