Sue Monk Kidd
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Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948, in Sylvester, Georgia) is a southern American writer best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees.
She graduated in 1970 from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in nursing, and worked throughout her twenties as a Registered Nurse and college nursing instructor.
She got her start in writing when a personal essay she wrote for a writing class was published in Guideposts Magazine and reprinted in Readers Digest. She went on to become a Contributing Editor at Guideposts.
Her first books, "God’s Joyful Surprise" (Harper SanFrancisco, 1988) and "When the Heart Waits" (Harper SanFrancisco, 1990) were spiritual memoirs describing her experiences in contemplative Christianity. "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" (Harper SanFrancisco, 1996) introduced themes from feminist theology.
Her first novel, "The Secret Life of Bees" (Viking, 2002) was completed over three and a half years. Her second novel, "The Mermaid Chair" was published in 2005.
She has acknowledged Henry David Thoreau, Kate Chopin, Thomas Merton and Carl Jung as influences.
She is currently Writer in Residence at Phoebe Pember House in Charleston, where she lives with her husband, Sanford (Sandy) Kidd, two children, Bob and Ann, and a black lab, Lily.
