With 22 best-selling novels on the market—and a 23rd on the way—you know Elin Hilderbrand, whether you know that you know her or not, KTHeaney writes
Photo: Courtesy of Elin Hilderbrand You know Elin Hilderbrand, whether you know that you know her or not. You have seen her at the airport and on Target’s bookshelves. That Airbnb you rented for a long weekend in the Florida Keys or Myrtle Beach? She was there, too. Her covers predominantly feature people’s feet on or near sand, plus an ambiguous title in gentle, summer-toned script — The Rumor, The Perfect Couple, Barefoot, A Summer Affair.
And with the success of Big Little Lies — the Emmy-winning, prestige-TV adaptation of a fairly beachy best-selling novel by Liane Moriarty — her space in the culture may be about to shift in other ways. Mad Men producers and writers Andre and Maria Jacquemetton are developing a TV series combining three of her novels that was recently optioned by Hulu.
On Nantucket, Hilderbrand fell in love — with the island itself, and with her now ex-husband, Chip Cunningham, manager of the swanky Cliffside Beach Club. They married before she turned 26, and she enrolled at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. You may be unsurprised to hear that Hilderbrand did not fit in.
Barefoot became a best seller, as has every Elin Hilderbrand book since. She has, accordingly, developed a reputation as a reliable workhorse. In the summer of 2013, her publisher called her to ask if she thought she could write a Christmas book in four weeks, because they’d had a spot open up on their winter list. She said no, but she did send a proposal for a winter-themed trilogy she called Winter Street.
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