Sue Monk Kidd

Sue was born in Sylvester, Georgia which was over by the Pinelands. She was deeply influenced by where she lived and which was how her first novel The Secret Life Of Bees was made. Her English teachers thought of her as a "born writer". She went to Texas Christian University and got her degree in nursing and married a student named Sandy Kidd and had two kids Ann and Bob. When she was thirty she was pulled to writing again while living in Anderson, South Carolina. Sue and her husband taught a small class at a college about Art. Her first book was a spiritual book called Gods Joyful Surprise published by Harper San Francisco in 1988. Her second book When The Heart Waits was published by Harper San Francisco in 1990. In 1997 she began to write the novel The Secret Life Of Bees and worked on it for three and a half years. When it was published it sold 3.5 million copies. It became a modern classic and was put on the big screen. Long after that she began writing the novel The Mermaid Chair which was completed in 2004 and became published in the spring of 2005.

Today sue lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her dog lily and her husband Sandy.