The books of May are here—fresh, fierce, and full of feels.
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd, author of the highly acclaimed memoirs The
Dance of the Dissident Daughter and When the Heart Waits,
has won a Poets & Writers award, a Katherine Anne Porter
Award, and a Bread Loaf scholarship. Two of her short
stories--including an excerpt from The Secret Life of Bees--
were selected as notable stories in Best American Short
Stories. The Secret Life of Bees was nominated for the
prestigious Orange Prize for fiction in England.
Today Sue lives beside a salt marsh near Charleston, South Carolina with her husband Sandy and their black lab, Lily. She writes in a book-lined, upstairs study where she can look out at the tidal creeks and marsh birds. She is at work on a new book.