Elin Hilderbrand

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Main Street, Nantucket. Featured in many of Hilderbrand's books.

Elin Hilderbrand (born July 17, 1969) is an American writer of beach reads that are often focused on mystery and romance. 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 in a factory that made Halloween costumes. While working at the factory, she promised herself to find a way to spend every summer at the beach.[5]

She attended university at Johns Hopkins University majoring in creative writing. After graduating, she became a teaching and 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. During her first trip to Nantucket, she met her now ex-husband, Chip Cunningham.[5]

Her first novel The Beach Club was published in 2000. This novel was chosen as the People Magazine Beach Read of the Week. Beginning in 2000, her novels were published by St. Martin's Press.[8] Since Barefoot in 2007, they have been published by Little, Brown and Company.

Hilderbrand has put Nantucket on the map. Her writing shows that Nantucket is not just a beach town but a literary backdrop. Her novels' locations are written from reality, featuring local businesses and landmarks in current-day Nantucket like the Brant Point Light and "The Chicken Box".[9] Moreover, despite many of her books not being a part of a book series, characters and locations overlap.

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.[10]

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.[11]

After her 30th book was published, The Swan Song, Hilderbrand made the decision to retire from Nantucket based novels. Her latest inspiration is a two part book series based on her daughter, Shelby Cunningham's experience at St George's School in Newport, Rhode Island. The first book of the series is expected to release in Fall 2025.[12]

Personal life

In 1995 Hilderbrand married Chip Cunningham at The Chanticleer in the Nantucket village of Siasconset.[13] They have three children,[14] and were divorced in 2015.[13]

Hilderbrand was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, undergoing a double mastectomy. Since 2014, she has undergone many reconstructive surgeries.[15] Hilderbrand has been very vocal about her diagnosis and empowering other women through her movement, #mamastrong. This initiative sends her books to cancer centers around the United States.[16]

Bibliography

Novels

Book Title Year Published ISBN
The Beach Club 2000 Template:ISBN
Nantucket Nights 2002 Template:ISBN
Summer People 2003 Template:ISBN
The Blue Bistro 2005 Template:ISBN
The Love Season 2006 Template:ISBN
Barefoot 2007 Template:ISBN
A Summer Affair 2008 Template:ISBN
The Castaways 2009 Template:ISBN
The Island 2010 Template:ISBN
Silver Girl 2011 Template:ISBN
Summerland 2012 Template:ISBN
Beautiful Day 2013 Template:ISBN
The Matchmaker 2014 Template:ISBN
Winter Street 2014 Template:ISBN
The Rumor 2015 Template:ISBN
Winter Stroll 2015 Template:ISBN
Here's To Us 2016 Template:ISBN
Winter Storms 2016 Template:ISBN
The Identicals 2017 Template:ISBN
Winter Solstice 2017 Template:ISBN
The Perfect Couple 2018 Template:ISBN
Winter in Paradise 2018 Template:ISBN
Summer of '69 2019 Template:ISBN
What Happens in Paradise 2020 Template:ISBN
28 Summers 2020 Template:ISBN
Troubles in Paradise 2020 Template:ISBN
Golden Girl 2021 Template:ISBN
The Hotel Nantucket 2022 Template:ISBN
The Five-Star Weekend 2023 Template:ISBN
Swan Song 2024 Template:ISBN

Short Stories

Book Title Year Pubished ISBN
The Surfing Lesson: An Original Short Story 2013 Template:ISBN
The Tailgate: An Original Short Story 2014 Template:ISBN
Summer of '79: A Summer of '69 Story 2020 Template:ISBN
The Sixth Wedding: A 28 Summers Story 2021 Template:ISBN
Natural Selection 2024 Template:ISBN

References

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