Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd's debut, The Secret Life of Bees , spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States, was turned into an award-winning major motion picture and a musical, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair , was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a television movie. Her third novel, The Invention of Wings , an Oprah's Book Club 2.0 pick, was also a #1 New...See more

Sue Monk Kidd's debut, The Secret Life of Bees , spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States, was turned into an award-winning major motion picture and a musical, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair , was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a television movie. Her third novel, The Invention of Wings , an Oprah's Book Club 2.0 pick, was also a #1 New York Times bestseller. She is the author of the acclaimed memoirs The Dance of the Dissident Daughter , a groundbreaking work on religion and feminism, and the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates , written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. See less