In her forties, Kidd turned her attention to writing fiction, winning the South Carolina Fellowship in Literature and the 1996 Poets & Writers Exchange Program in Fiction. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, also published by Harper in 1996 , describes Kidd’s journey into feminist theology, a memoir that had a groundbreaking effect within religious circles. Her book When the Heart Waits, published by Harper San Francisco in 1990 has become a touchstone on contemplative spirituality. She was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 2011 and into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2022. In 2016, TCU conferred on her an honorary doctor of letters degree. She graduated from Texas Christian University in 1970 and later took creative writing courses at Emory University and Anderson College, as well as studying at Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and other writers’ conferences. Sue Monk Kidd was raised in the small town of Sylvester, Georgia, a place that deeply influenced the writing of her first novel The Secret Life of Bees.
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