Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

Hilderbrand's novels have all been set on and around Nantucket Island where Elin Hilderbrand lives with her husband and three children. She was born and raised in Collegeville Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer of Summer beach read romance novels.

Hilderbrand's novels have all been set on and around Nantucket Island where Elin Hilderbrand lives with her husband and three children. Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer of Summer beach read romance novels.