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Sue Monk Kidd

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in Sylvester, Georgia, The United States

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Fiction, Memoir

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Eudora Welty, Kate Chopin: The Awakening, Thomas Merton, C.G. Jung

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SUE MONK KIDD was raised in the small town of Sylvester, Georgia. She graduated from Texas Christian University in 1970 and later took creative writing courses at Emory University, as well as studying at Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and other writers’ conferences. In her forties, Kidd turned her attention to writing fiction, winning the South Carolina Fellowship in Literature and the 1996 Poets & Writers Exchange Program in Fiction.

When her first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, was published by Viking in 2002, it became a genuine literary phenomenon, spending more than 2½ years on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been translated into 36 languages and sold more than 6 million copies in the U.S. and 8 million copies worldwide. Bees was name ...more

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Final Round Voting - Goodreads Choice Awards

Dear Readers,

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This photo was made last April on the publication day of The Book of Longings. I was so excited then, and today I’m still excited because of you, the readers who voted my novel into the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards. I’m really grateful.

I hope you vote in the final round.

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...

Many thanks!
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Average rating: 4.08 · 1,875,027 ratings · 89,859 reviews · 50 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Secret Life of Bees 4.09 avg rating — 1,304,678 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Wings 4.25 avg rating — 318,490 ratings — published 2014 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Longings 4.23 avg rating — 127,513 ratings — published 2020 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mermaid Chair 3.21 avg rating — 86,870 ratings — published 2004 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine 3.98 avg rating — 10,386 ratings — published 1996 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France by Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author), Ann Kidd Taylor (Goodreads Author) 3.52 avg rating — 11,730 ratings — published 2009 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions 4.05 avg rating — 4,729 ratings — published 1990 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd 3.92 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Wings: Exclusive Free Chapter Sampler 4.32 avg rating — 678 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved 3.96 avg rating — 519 ratings — published 1987 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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