Sue Monk Kidd
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Sue Monk Kidd was born in Sylvester, Georgia on August 12, 1948. She received a B.S. in nursing from Texas Christian University in 1970 and worked throughout her twenties as a registered nurse and college nursing instructor. She got her start in writing at the age of 30 when a personal essay she mehr anzeigen wrote for a writing class was published in Guideposts and reprinted in Reader's Digest. She went on to become a contributing editor at Guideposts and a freelancer. She primarily writes non-fiction, but is best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees, which won the 2004 Book Sense Paperback book of the Year. The book was made into a movie in 2008. Her other works include God's Joyful Surprise, When the Heart Waits, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Firstlight, and Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story. The Mermaid Chair won the 2005 Quill Award for General Fiction and was adapted into a television movie by Lifetime. Sue's title, The Invention of Wings, was selected as the Oprah Book Club 2.0 read in January, 2014. This title also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Werke von Sue Monk Kidd
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (1996) 1,176 Exemplare
The Secret Life of Bees / The Mermaid Chair 9 Exemplare
The Sue Monk Kidd Spiritual Sampler: Excerpts from The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, When the Heart Waits, and a… (2016) 6 Exemplare
With Open Hands 2 Exemplare
Le livre des ferveurs 2 Exemplare
The Balloon That Let My Child Go 1 Exemplar
Moonlight on Linoleum 1 Exemplar
2 Sue Monk Kidd Books! 1) The Invention of Wings 2) Firstlight - The Early Inspiratioal Writings of Sue Monk Kidd (2017) 1 Exemplar
Life of Bees 1 Exemplar
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Christliche Kontemplation: Ein radikaler Weg der Gottessuche (1961) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 2,198 Exemplare
After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements (2021) — Vorwort — 80 Exemplare
Of Love and Life: Three Weeks in Paris / The Secret Life of Bees / Fair Game (2002) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1948-08-12
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Albany, Georgia, USA
- Wohnorte
- Sylvester, Georgia, USA
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Florida, USA - Ausbildung
- Texas Christian University(B.S. ∙ 1970)
Emory University - Berufe
- nurse(registered)
instructor(nursing)
writer-in-residence
novelist
memoirist
short story writer - Beziehungen
- Taylor, Ann Kidd (daughter)
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- William Morris Agency
- Kurzbiographie
- Sue Monk Kidd was born in Albany, Georgia and raised in the tiny town of Sylvester, Georgia, a place that later deeply influenced the writing of her first novel. Her original career was as a nurse and nursing instructor. Her first published book was God's Joyful Surprise (1988), a spiritual memoir. In 1996, she published another memoir, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, which had a groundbreaking effect within religious circles.
In her 40s, she decided to return to her earlier fiction writing, and enrolled in a graduate writing course at Emory University, as well as studying at Sewanee, Bread Loaf and other writers' conferences. She wrote and published short stories in small literary journals for which she won several awards. Her first novel The Secret Life of Bees (2002) became a major hit, selling more than 6 million copies and spending more than 2½ years on the New York Times bestseller list. It was also published in 35 countries and is now widely used as a text in high school and college classrooms. The Secret Life of Bees was produced on stage in New York by The American Place Theater and adapted into a movie in 2008.
Sue's second novel, The Mermaid Chair (2005) sold nearly 2 million copies and was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been translated into 24 languages and was produced as a television movie by Lifetime.
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Sue Monk Kidd hat einen berührenden Roman über das Leben in den Südstaaten der USA vor dem Bürgerkrieg geschaffen. Sie zeigt das Übel der Sklaverei und die Lebensumstände der Sklaven, aber auch die gesellschaftlichen Zwänge, denen reiche und sohin (vermeintlich) privilegierte Frauen in jener Zeit ausgesetzt waren. Auf unterschiedliche Art sind beide Protagonisten Gefangene eines Unrechtssystems und entwickeln beide Gegenstrategien.
Kidd erzählt in Form eines Entwicklungsromans die Lebensgeschichte der (real existierenden) Abolitionistin und Frauenrechtlerin Sarah Moore Grimké und deren (fiktiver) Sklavin Hetty in deren eigenen Worten als Ich-Erzählung. Wenngleich sich die Autorin die eine oder andere künstlerische Freiheit herausgenommen hat, ist ihr Werk ein gut recherchiertes und zugleich berührendes Zeugnis der Südstaatenkultur vor deren Zusammenbruch.… (mehr)