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.

The film rights for THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES have been optioned by Lauren Shuler Donner, producer of You've Got Mail and other major films.

Books by Sue Monk Kidd

Firstlight: Early Inspirational Writings

by Sue Monk Kidd - Christian, Inspirational Essays

The Mermaid Chair

by Sue Monk Kidd - Fiction

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd - Historical Fiction

Set in South Carolina in 1964, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES is the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina --- a town that holds the secret to her mother's past.