Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd is the beloved bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, The Mermaid Chair, The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings. Her debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold over eight million copies worldwide, was turned into both an award-winning motion picture and a musical, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. She is the author of several acclaimed memoirs, including The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, her groundbreaking work on religion and feminism, as well as the New York Times bestseller Travelling with Pomegranates, written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. She lives in North Carolina.