Sue Monk Kidd

•Sue Monk Kidd was born on August 12, 1948 in Sylvester, Georgia
•Married to Sanford Kidd and has 2 children
•Graduated from Texas Christian University in 1970
•She is a Registered Nurse and an Author
•Resides near Charleston, South Carolina and is currently writing a book with her daughter




Sue Monk Kidd was born on August 12, 1948, in Sylvester, Georgia and lived on a plot of land that had belonged to her family for more than 200 years. She spent all of her childhood in Sylvester, a safe, small, rural town she has called “endearing” and “Mayberry-esque” in interviews, even though the town was the site of racial injustices so prevalent in the South during that time. As a child Kidd observed the deeply ingrained segregation between white and black southerners. As a teenager in the mid 1960s, Kidd witnessed the beginnings of desegregation, and the injustices she encountered left a lasting impression on her. This would come to guide her early years as a writer.





Her first and most famous novel, The Secret Life of Bees, is set in South Carolina between 1964 and 1965. This occured when the President of the United States, Lyndon Johnson, signs the Civil Rights Act into law. Kidd includes the Civil Rights Act and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. within her story to show the rise of deep-seated resentment, creating tension and an incredibly powerful and moving plot!


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