Shelby Cunningham

Shelby Cunningham is the daughter of bestselling novelist Elin Hilderbrand and her co-author on The Academy (2025), a young-adult boarding-school series set at fictional Tiffin Academy -- Hilderbrand's first published collaboration and her first foray into YA after more than two decades of Nantucket-set adult fiction. Hilderbrand has described The Academy as the first of a planned two-book series, with a sequel already under contract. Beyond this collaboration, this catalogue does not hold independently verified biographical detail about Shelby Cunningham -- no confirmed birth year or separate writing credits could be established from the sources used to build this catalogue.