Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd received the Quill Award for her novel The Mermaid Chair at an award ceremony in New York, October 11, 2005. The award was presented to Sue by novelist Erica Jong. The ceremony, televised as a one hour special on NBC October 22, included award presentations to authors in nineteen categories. The Mermaid Chair won in the category of General Fiction. The other nominees for General Fiction were, The Plot Against America by Philip Roth; Zorro by Isabel Allende; Gilead by Marilynne Robinson; A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. Books were nominated by a national panel of 6000 invited librarians and booksellers, who sought the best books published between August 1, 2004 and July 31, 2005. The winner was then decided by the reading public who voted online and through bookstores, making the Quill Award the first literary award to contain a “people’s choice” element. For a full list of winners: www.quillsliteracy.org.