The family in question has spent most of their summers at this location burying secrets and igniting romance. The Island is a fictional story of love in the summer set in the remote yet peaceful getaway of Tuckernuck Island, Nantucket. All the publications written by Elin Hilderbrand are standalone novels. Despite having written fourteen novels, Hilderbrand does not have a series under her name. These are just two among many summer romance books she has published. Martin’s Press and after that switched to Little, Brown and Company. She is the brains behind publications such as The Island and Summer People. The first among her works is the novel The Beach Club, which she released in 2000. Hilderbrand is fondly referred to as ‘The Queen of the Summer Novel’. Later on in 1993, Elin relocated to Nantucket where she started off as a classifieds worker for the local newspaper before she began her writing ways. It was after this summer job that Elin vowed to have a real summer for the rest of the summers of her lifetime. The summer after that was spent in a Halloween factory, working where she pieced costumes together. This was before she lost her father at the age of 16 in a horrifying plane crash. Summertime was spent in Cape Cod during which Elin loved collecting sea glass, burrowing pools for hermit crabs, swimming and playing touch football in times of low tide. This has grown to become Hilderbrand’s favorite setting for her novels (most of her novels are set in Nantucket besides the Beacon Hill streets of Boston).Įlin is now married with three young children who on a light note beg her not to dance in public or sing along to the songs on radio! She spent most of her childhood in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Elin had travelled expansively before finally settling in Nantucket Island.
This novel writer attended John Hopkins University from where she graduated prior to teaching and writing at the Writers’ workshop hosted by the University of Iowa. Elin Hildebrand is a best-selling American author of romance novels.
0 kommentar(er)
