Today's author is Sue Monk Kidd.Quick Facts:
1. She was raised in Sylvester, Georgia.
2. She graduated from Texas Christian University.
3. Her first works were non-fiction and included God's Joyful Surprise and When the Heart Waits.
4. Her third book, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, is a memoir exploring feminist theology.
5. She then turned her attention to writing fiction and enrolled in a graduate writing course at Emory University.
6. Her first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, was published in 2002 and is quickly becoming a modern classic.
7. Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair, was published in 2005 and has sold 2 million copies.
8. Firstlight, a collection of her early writings, was released in 2006.
9. Her newest book, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story, co-authored with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor will debut September 8, 2009.
10. She has a black lab named Lily.
Which of her books have you read? What's your favorite?
