Sue Monk Kidd
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born
August 12, 1948
gender
female
place of birth
Sylvester, Georgia, USA, The United States
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genre
Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
influences
Thoreau: Walden, Kate Chopin: The Awakening, Thomas Merton, C.G. Jung
about this author
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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Sue Monk Kidd on tour for the book "Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story"
Author appearance, November 13, 2009 12:00PM
Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St., Charleston, SC, The United States
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Author appearance, November 13, 2009 12:00PM
Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St., Charleston, SC, The United States
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Sue Monk Kidd on tour for the book "Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story"
Author appearance, February 16, 2010 12:00PM
Sunshine Booksellers, 677 S. Collier Boulevard, Marco Island, FL, The United States
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Author appearance, February 16, 2010 12:00PM
Sunshine Booksellers, 677 S. Collier Boulevard, Marco Island, FL, The United States
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September 2009,
Sue Monk Kidd
"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
"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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"Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
"...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 (The Secret Life of Bees)
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
"I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved."
— Sue Monk Kidd
— Sue Monk Kidd
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