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 Awayrd and a Bread Loaf scholarship. Thow of her stories - including an exerpt from The Secret Life of Bees - were selected as notable stories in Best American Short Stories. The Secret Life of Bees, her first novel, was nominated for the prestigious Orange Prize in England. She lives beside a salt marsh near Charleston, South Carloina.