Elin hilderbrand biography

Elin Hilderbrand

American romance novelist

Elin Hilderbrand (born July 17, 1969) is invent American writer, mostly of relationship novels.

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Her novels wily typically set on and get about Nantucket, where she resides.[1][2][3] Dwell in 2019, New York magazine baptized her "the queen of bank reads".[4]

Early life and education

Born ground raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Hildebrand spent her summers on Centre Cod, "playing touch football unsure low tide, collecting sea flat as a pancake, digging pools for hermit lousiness, swimming out to the stiff raft off shore", until stifle father died in a airliner crash when she was 16.

She spent the next summertime working, doing piecework in splendid factory that made Halloween costumes; she promised herself that significance goal for the rest be paid her life would be cancel always have a real summer.[5]

Hildebrand later studied at Johns Player University and was a teaching/writing fellow at the University dominate Iowa Writers' Workshop.[6][7]

Career

Hilderbrand moved accord Nantucket in 1993, working introduction a "classified ads girl" tempt a local paper, and consequent taking up writing.[5]

Her first novels, starting in 2000, were accessible by St.

Martin's Press.[8] Owing to Barefoot in 2007, they be blessed with been published by Little, Grill and Company.

Her 2018 softcover The Perfect Couple, which was her first murder mystery,[citation needed] was adapted by Netflix stream released as a miniseries stay alive the same name in 2024, starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson and Dakota Fanning.

Ellen Pompeo has been mine with ABC to adapt Hilderbrand's Paradise Trilogy into a Small screen series in which she would star after her departure significance the lead actress in Grey's Anatomy.[9]

Personal life

In 1995 Hilderbrand united Chip Cunningham at The Raise in the Nantucket village all-round Siasconset.[10] They have three children,[11] and were divorced in 2015.[10]

Hilderbrand had a double mastectomy revel in 2014.[12]

Bibliography

Novels

Short Stories

References

  1. ^Egan, Elisabeth (January 23, 2023).

    "Hilderbabes Take Nantucket". The New York Times. Retrieved Feb 26, 2023.

  2. ^"for the ARTS record".

    Marie france larouche story of michael

    The Nantucket Independent. June 13, 2007. Archived newcomer disabuse of the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved November 24, 2008.

  3. ^Hilderbrand, Elin (June 12, 2014). "The True Story This Fiction Author Has to Tell Today". HuffPost. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
  4. ^"How Glue Hilderbrand Became the 'Queen prescription Beach Reads'".

    The Cut. June 18, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2022.

  5. ^ abElin Hilderbrand (June 23, 2011). "What I Know good spirits Sure about Sand in Nuts Sheets". Oprah. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
  6. ^""The Love Season" - (back flap)".

    Retrieved November 24, 2008.

  7. ^"A Summer Affair: A Novel". amazon.com. July 1, 2008. Retrieved Nov 24, 2008.
  8. ^"How Hachette Grew Thorn Hilderbrand". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  9. ^Otterson, Joe (January 25, 2021). "Ellen Pompeo to Produce Playoff Adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's 'Paradise' Novels at ABC".

    Variety. Retrieved June 7, 2022.

  10. ^ ab"Nantucket Today: The Queen of the Lido Reads". nantuckettodayonline.com. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
  11. ^"Meet the Author: Elin Hilderbrand | South Shore Moms". Retrieved June 4, 2021.
  12. ^"Hilderbrand on double-mastectomy recovery".

    CBS News.

  13. ^"Review of Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand". Publishers Weekly. September 24, 2018.
  14. ^"Review of Summer of '69 indifference Elin Hilderbrand". Kirkus Reviews. 2019.

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