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Sue Monk
Kidd grew up in Southwest Georgia. In 1970, she graduated
from Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth with a
major in nursing despite her desire to be a writer. She
ignored that desire and developed her career as a nurse at
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Fort Worth. She went on to become
an instructor of nursing at the Medical College of Georgia.
While in her thirties and living with her husband and
children in South Carolina she began to pursue her life-long
interest in writing. She wrote two non-fiction books,
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and
When the
Heart Waits.
Then she tried her hand at fiction
and won the Katherine Anne Porter Award. Two of her short stories,
including an excerpt from
The Secret Life of Bees,
were selected as notable stories in
Best American Short
Stories. Her first novel,
The Secret Life of Bees, was met with both critical and commercial success. Her second
novel,
The Mermaid's Chair, will be published in the
spring of 2005.
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