“I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.” – Sue Monk Kidd
Author of a dozen top-selling books,
Monk Kidd’s perhaps best known for her novel The Secret Life of Bees, which tells the story the story of
a white girl who runs away from home to live with her deceased mother's former
black nanny, who now works as an independent bee-keeper and honey-maker with
many of her sisters. A wonderful study of relationships and understanding, it has also been made
into both a Broadway play and long-running movie.
Born on this date in 1948, Monk Kidd
got her start in writing when a personal essay she wrote for a class was
published in Guideposts, then reprinted in Readers’ Digest. She went on to become a Contributing Editor at
Guideposts and a regular writer for many other magazines and journals.
Monk Kidd said
she always is glad to hear that readers feel immersed in her stories,
noting, “I want my words to open a
portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human
sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.”
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