Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd was born in a tiny town of Sylvester, Georgia. She became a nurse before starting her career as a writer. She even worked on surgical and pediatric hospital units and as a college nursing instructor, but when she turned 30 the hope to write returned.When she was living in Anderson, south California she enrolled in writing classes. The name of her first book was Spiritual Memoir. It was in 1997 when she start writing her first novel ,THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, and worked on it for the next 3 years, and was published in 2002.Today Sue lives in Salt Charleston, South Carolina with her husband.