Elin Hilderbrand
Дата рождения: July 17, 1969 – Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States
Elin Hilderbrand is an American novelist known for Nantucket-set contemporary fiction centered on family, romance, and summer life. Her notable books include Summer of ’69, The Perfect Couple, and 28 Summers. Often called the “queen of beach reads,” she has written numerous New York Times bestsellers and built a wide popular readership.
Биография и Путь Автора
Elin Hilderbrand built her career by turning an island landscape into one of the most recognizable settings in contemporary commercial fiction. Raised outside Philadelphia, she studied in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where a senior-year short story, “Misdirection,” was accepted by Seventeen. After early work in publishing and teaching in New York City, she moved permanently to Nantucket in 1994, completed the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1998, and published her debut novel, The Beach Club, in 2000. Those steps established the pattern that would define her work: literary training paired with an instinct for accessible, emotionally direct storytelling rooted in place. ((https://www.elinhilderbrand.net/landing-page/about-elin-hilderbrand/))
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"Elin Hilderbrand, the Queen of the Beach Read, Is Closing the Book"
— Glamour
"Elin Hilderbrand is the queen of the summer blockbuster"
— Kirkus Reviews
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— Boston.com
"Elin Hilderbrand has been called the “queen of the beach read."
— The Washington Post
"It doesn't feel like summer unless I read an Elin Hilderbrand book"
— The New York Times Book Review
"Elin Hilderbrand is one of the OGs of beach reads—The Queen of the Summer Novel, as she’s called"
— Parade
"I like Elin Hilderbrand. You should, too"
— Chicago Tribune
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