Sue Monk Kidd

Authors Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor will begin a seven-city book tour at Wesleyan College on Monday, September 13, 2010. The event, to be held in the College’s Porter Auditorium at 7PM, is the official launch of the paperback version of the New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage ... (more)and metamorphosis, Traveling with Pomegranates. The event will include a special presentation and book signing. It is free and open to the public! Part travel story, part spiritual quest, and part induction into feminine passages, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France is a memoir told in two voices. Set against the awe-inspiring backdrops of France and Greece, this intersecting autobiography chronicles an intimate mapping of two women — Sue Monk Kidd, before the phenomenal success of her New York Times bestselling novel, The Secret Life of Bees, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor — as well as the moving metamorphosis of their mother-daughter relationship. Each woman — a fifty something and a twenty-something, a mother and a daughter — finds herself at a crossroads, and together they undertake a journey to redefine themselves, and rediscover each other, which they share in this compelling and poignant dual memoir. Sue Monk Kidd’s first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, has spent more than 125 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted into an award-winning film in 2008. Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair, also a #1 New York Times bestseller, was adapted into a television movie. Each of her novels has been translated into more than 24 languages. She is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs and the recipient of numerous literary awards. Sue lives beside a salt marsh near Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband. Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College. She has written personal essays for Skirt! Magazine in Charleston, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband and son. This is her first book.

Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor will discuss and sign copies of their memoir told in two voices, Traveling with Pomegranates. France and Greece provide the rich setting for this intersecting spiritual autobiography, in which both mother and daughter make choices and decisions as they enter ... (more)new phases of their lives. Sue Monk Kidd is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Mermaid Chair and The Secret Life of Bees, which was adapted into an award-winning major motion picture. This event is co-sponsored with the Durham County Library.

Author: Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor. Traveling with Pomegranates is Sue's first novel written with her daughter Ann. Sue Monk Kidd’s debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, that was made into a major motion picture was a The New York Times Bestseller 2 Years. She is also the Author of several acclaimed ... (more)memoirs and the recipient of numerous literary awards. Sue and her husband live close to a salt marsh near Charleston, South Carolina. Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College. She wrote personal essays for Skirt! Magazine in Charleston, South Carolina where she lives with her husband and son. Traveling with Pomegranates is Ann's debut Book. Title: Traveling with Pomegranates : A Mother-Daughter Story, $25.95 Hardcover, ISBN 9780670021208, On Sale Date: September 08, 2009 What: Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor will talk about their New Book, their life, their work, answer
audience questions and they will autograph copies of their New Book purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket. When: Thursday, October 01, 2009, 7:00 PM Where: A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
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***TIME TO BE DETERMINED*** Bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, made into a major motion picture starring Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Hudson, has co-written a unique and profound spiritual memoir with her daughter set against the backdrop of Sue and Ann's travels ... (more)together in Greece and France. Their book offers distinct perspectives from two women at different stages in life –- a fifty something and a twenty something –- each at crossroads and each on a quest to redefine herself while rediscovering one another. (Talk and signing at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, LaVista Rd. hosted by Borders) ***TIME TO BE DETERMINED***

Amherst Museum's Museum Book Club is free and open to the public. Please call 716-689-1440 ext. 7716 or email amuseum@roadrunner.com to register.

General Admission $15. "Sue Monk Kidd will present a lecture entitled "The Secret Life of Bees: Place, 'Southern-ness,' and Spirituality." Acclaimed author Sue Monk Kidd will reflect on her New York Times bestseller The Secret Life of Bees, which is fast becoming a modern literary classic. Emphasizing ... (more)the inspiration and creative process behind the work, Ms. Kidd will discuss her own vision of the themes in the book, the influence of place, 'Southern-ness' and spirituality in the novel, including her thoughts on what makes a novel Southern. She will also touch upon the current adaptation of the novel into a movie starring Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah, which is scheduled to be released later this year. A question and answer period will conclude her talk. The Secret Life of Bees has sold more than 4.5 million copies, spent over two years on the New York Times bestseller list and been published in more than 23 languages. It was awarded the 2004 Book Sense Paperback Book of the Year and nominated for the Orange Prize in England. Taught widely now in college and high school classrooms, it has been produced on stage in New York by The American Place Theater. Ms. Kidd is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs, as well as the #1 New York Times bestseller The Mermaid Chair, winner of the 2005 Quill Award for Fiction, and the spiritual memoir The Dance of the Dissident Daughter."