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Elin Hildebrand, is author of summer novels based in Nantucket, a coastal community of Massachusetts. Over 25 years she has written summer novels that have sold tens of millions of copies and now plans making a change to literary fiction set in Academy, a elite boarding school. As writer Elin is unique with her disciplined workout and her small town ways. Keeping a discipline in exercise that is tougher than her writing- seven days a week she rides her bike, does a Barre class and does a slow jog for four or five miles. It took many years to get to where she is, and she is happy for this as success too early leads to disappointment later. Hildebrand works out for three hours promptly after waking up. Nothing is as hard as this workout. She studied at John Hopkins and attended two years in a graduate English literature program at the University of Iowa before getting into writing a range of fiction. From early childhood experiences in Philadephia, a summer at Nantucket, she has put roots in this coastal community of Massachusetts for about 25 years.