SUE MONK KIDD grew up in Sylvester, Georgia, a small town. She graduated from Texas Christian University in 1970 and later studied creative writing at Emory University and Anderson College, as well as at Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and other conferences for writers. In her forties, Kidd turned her attention to writing fiction, winning the South Carolina Fellowship in Literature and the Poets & Writers Exchange Program in Fiction in 1996. When Viking published her first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, in 2002, it became a genuine literary phenomenon, spending more than 2 years on the bestseller list of the New York Times. It was translated into 36 languages and sold over 6 million copies worldwide in the U.S. and 8 million copies. In 2004, Bees was named the Book Sense Paperback Book of the Year, long-listed in England for the 2002 Orange Prize, and won numerous awards. The Mermaid Chair spent 24 weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list, reaching #1 position, and spending 22 weeks on the New York Times trade paperback list. She is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor, including the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates. Kidd is living with her husband in North Carolina. Sue is working on her fourth novel, The Longings Book. For more information, please visit www.suemonkkidd.com. Follow @SueMonkKidd and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/suemonkkidd on Twitter & Instagram... Read More
