
83 workspublishing since 1925
Elin Hilderbrand is an American novelist, born in 1969 in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and was a teaching and writing fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Since her debut, The Beach Club (2000), she has written some thirty novels, most of them set on Nantucket, where she lives, including Barefoot, Silver Girl, Summerland, The Identicals and The Perfect Couple, adapted by Netflix in 2024. Swan Song (2024) closed her run of Nantucket summer novels. With her daughter Shelby Cunningham she co-wrote The Academy (2025) and its sequel, The Thoroughbreds.
Elin Hilderbrand is an American novelist, born in 1969 in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and was a teaching and writing fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Since her debut, The Beach Club (2000), she has written some thirty novels, most of them set on Nantucket, where she lives, including Barefoot, Silver Girl, Summerland, The Identicals and The Perfect Couple, adapted by Netflix in 2024. Swan Song (2024) closed her run of Nantucket summer novels. With her daughter Shelby Cunningham she co-wrote The Academy (2025) and its sequel, The Thoroughbreds.