Hilderbrand got a coveted spot at the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop, known for nurturing the most revered literary fiction writers. Strangely enough, she found her way to that endless summer beach - in Iowa. "And when I was doing this, I thought to myself, I don't care what happens the rest of my life but I'm gonna find a way to spend every summer at the beach. "I was folding Rambo headbands eight hours a day, stapling clown hats to cardboard forms," she tells me. She spent the next summer working in a factory making Halloween costumes. When Hilderbrand turned 16, her father was killed in a plane crash. Her father set down some strict rules for the kids, including the most important one: If the sun was shining, they had to spend the whole day at the beach. Hilderbrand fell in love with summer when she was young, at the cottage her family rented on Cape Cod. She sets her stories in Nantucket, a summer paradise where she lives year round. They call her the queen of summer, because writer Elin Hilderbrand has perfected the kind of book you can devour while sitting on the beach or by a lake, or pretty much anywhere on a hot summer day. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Identicals Author Elin Hilderbrand
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