Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd grew up in Sylvester, Georgia. She graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in Nursing and practiced as a nurse into her thirties. Kidd then began to take writing courses at Emory University and Anderson College, then published in the Christian magazine Guideposts and wrote three books regarding her spiritual journey. Kidd’s first novel, The Secret Life of Bees (2002), focuses on life in the South during the Civil Rights Era and became a literary sensation, spending more than two years on the New York Times Bestseller list. The Invention of Wings returns to Charleston, Kidd’s hometown for many years, to examine racial relations in the Antebellum South. Kidd now lives in southwest Florida with her husband and serves on the Writer’s Council of Poets & Writers, Inc.