Sue Monk Kidd was born on August 12, 1948. She is a writer best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees. The book was made into a movie for theatrical release in 2008. Kidd, who was born in Sylvester, Georgia, graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in nursing in 1970 and worked throughout her twenties as a Registered Nurse and college nursing instructor. She got her start in writing when a personal essay she 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. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, two children, and a black lab.