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]
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]