Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand
Born	(1969-07-17) July 17, 1969 Collegeville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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, where she resides. In 2019, New York magazine called Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads".

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.

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, in 1975, 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.

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

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

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

Hilderbrand had a double mastectomy in June 2014.

In 2015, Hilderbrand and Chip Cunningham divorced.

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.

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.

Bibliography

Novels

• Swan Song (2024; ISBN 978-0-316-25887-6)
• 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)
• Winter in Paradise (2018; ISBN 978-0-316-43551-2)
• 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)

External links

• Elin Hilderbrand at IMDb