A woman with long blonde hair wearing a sleeveless black dress stands smiling with her hands clasped in front of her against a plain white background.

Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. The Thoroughbreds is her thirty-second novel, and the second co-written with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham. Hilderbrand is the co-host of the podcast “Books, Beach and Beyond” along with @TimTalksBooks creator, Tim Ehrenberg. She is raising four young adult children and likes to spend her free time at the beach and on her Peloton. She’s a grateful ten-year breast cancer survivor.