Elin Hilderbrand lives on Nantucket with her husband and their three young children. She grew up in Collegeville, PA, and traveled extensively before settling on Nantucket, which has been the setting for her eight previous novels. Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fiction workshop at the University of Iowa.

Looking for that great summer read for August? Author Elin Hilderbrand shares her favorite summer books set in New England. Her new book, The Island, is out now.