Sue Monk Kidd

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born

August 12, 1948 in Sylvester, Georgia, USA, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.suemonkkidd.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality

influences

Thoreau: Walden, Kate Chopin: The Awakening, Thomas Merton, C.G. Jung

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Sue Monk Kidd was born in the small city of Sylvester in Georgia. She felt the pull to write as a child, but because of the attitudes in the South during her youth, she only took to writing aound the age of thirty. She started with spiritual and religious texts, about Christianity, and only began writing fiction when she was in her forties. She began working on her first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, in 1997 and it was published in 2002 by Viking, to instant acclaim. It has sold more than 4.5 million copies, been over two years on the New York Times bestseller list and been translated into more than 23 languages.

Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair, was published in 2005, and has been a great success as well. In 2006, a collect...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 420,078 ratings · 22,468 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Secret Life of Bees 3.86 avg rating — 381,210 ratings — published 2002 — 74 editions	My rating:
	The Mermaid Chair 2.93 avg rating — 33,121 ratings — published 2004 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor 3.31 avg rating — 2,755 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine 3.78 avg rating — 1,899 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions 4.05 avg rating — 480 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd 3.76 avg rating — 313 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved 3.63 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	All Things Are Possible: Gift Boxed 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	A Luminous Presence: One Woman's Awakening To The Inner Life 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Love's Hidden Blessings: God Can Touch Your Life When You Least Expect It 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1990	My rating:

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"One of my all-time favorite books about a wise and funny young woman who has managed to escape her poor life in Kentucky without getting pregnant (this being her main goal growing up), and the three-year-old Native American girl she 'inherits' on her road trip. The novel's beauty and brilliance are the deepening way this unlikely pair become mother and daughter." ...More

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Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: life-death

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“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: diplomacy , empowerment , life , relationships , subtlety

211 people liked it

“some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
― Sue Monk Kidd

tags: love-heart

210 people liked it

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Beauty Sleep A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty"

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