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Sue Monk Kidd

Autor/a de The Secret Life of Bees

21+ obres 43,990 Membres 1,225 Ressenyes 55 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Sue Monk Kidd was born in Sylvester, Georgia on August 12, 1948. She received a B.S. in nursing from Texas Christian University in 1970 and worked throughout her twenties as a registered nurse and college nursing instructor. She got her start in writing at the age of 30 when a personal essay she mostra'n més wrote for a writing class was published in Guideposts and reprinted in Reader's Digest. She went on to become a contributing editor at Guideposts and a freelancer. She primarily writes non-fiction, but is best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees, which won the 2004 Book Sense Paperback book of the Year. The book was made into a movie in 2008. Her other works include God's Joyful Surprise, When the Heart Waits, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Firstlight, and Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story. The Mermaid Chair won the 2005 Quill Award for General Fiction and was adapted into a television movie by Lifetime. Sue's title, The Invention of Wings, was selected as the Oprah Book Club 2.0 read in January, 2014. This title also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Obres de Sue Monk Kidd

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New Seeds of Contemplation (1961) — Introducció, algunes edicions2,198 exemplars
The Secret Life of Bees [2008 film] (2002) — Original book — 149 exemplars
Hungry Hearts: Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging (2021) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars
Második esély (2005) 1 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1948-08-12
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Albany, Georgia, USA
Llocs de residència
Sylvester, Georgia, USA
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Florida, USA
Educació
Texas Christian University(B.S. ∙ 1970)
Emory University
Professions
nurse(registered)
instructor(nursing)
writer-in-residence
novelist
memoirist
short story writer
Relacions
Taylor, Ann Kidd (daughter)
Agent
William Morris Agency
Biografia breu
Sue Monk Kidd was born in Albany, Georgia and raised in the tiny town of Sylvester, Georgia, a place that later deeply influenced the writing of her first novel. Her original career was as a nurse and nursing instructor. Her first published book was God's Joyful Surprise (1988), a spiritual memoir. In 1996, she published another memoir, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, which had a groundbreaking effect within religious circles.
In her 40s, she decided to return to her earlier fiction writing, and enrolled in a graduate writing course at Emory University, as well as studying at Sewanee, Bread Loaf and other writers' conferences. She wrote and published short stories in small literary journals for which she won several awards. Her first novel The Secret Life of Bees (2002) became a major hit, selling more than 6 million copies and spending more than 2½ years on the New York Times bestseller list. It was also published in 35 countries and is now widely used as a text in high school and college classrooms. The Secret Life of Bees was produced on stage in New York by The American Place Theater and adapted into a movie in 2008.
Sue's second novel, The Mermaid Chair (2005) sold nearly 2 million copies and was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been translated into 24 languages and was produced as a television movie by Lifetime.

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ConxaM | Hi ha 587 ressenyes més | Oct 13, 2012 |
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Obres
21
També de
6
Membres
43,990
Popularitat
#379
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
1,225
ISBN
314
Llengües
22
Preferit
55

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