Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees was nominated for Outstanding Musical as part of The 65th Annual Drama Desk Award nominations that were announced on April 21, 2020. ‘Bees’ picked up a total of seven nominations.  The list includes: Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Outstanding Music, Outstanding Lyrics, Outstanding Book of…

Sue Monk Kidd released her fourth novel, The Book of Longings on Tuesday and simultaneously announced a new virtual book club created to discuss it live with readers. Moderated by four independent booksellers over four weeks in May, the talks will focus on reader submitted questions via social media by using the hashtag #thebookoflongingsbookclub. To view…

The 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards Nominations for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced recently and The Secret Life of Bees picked up 3 nominations. ‘Bees’ was nominated for Outstanding Musical while LaChanze and Eisa Davis were nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical. The awards will be presented live online on May 3 at www.lortelawards.org. Read the…

  UPDATED 4/15: Virtual and live social media events are being announced – see the Events page for updates as they are confirmed!   A personal message from Sue Monk Kidd: All book tour events for The Book of Longings have been postponed indefinitely. I’m heartsick about this. But of course, the most important thing…

This introductory piece by Sue Monk Kidd describes the day she wrote the first lines of The Book of Longings, followed by a link to the full excerpt…   “I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus ben Joseph of Nazareth. I called him Beloved and he, laughing, called me Little Thunder.”   These…

Headline Books revealed a beautiful cover for the UK and Ireland edition of Sue’s forthcoming novel, The Book of Longings in a stunning video. Click the picture below. Tinder Press UK Pre-Order

Sue Monk Kidd’s new novel, The Book of Longings, begins to show up in 2020 ‘Most Anticipated’ lists.

Sue Monk Kidd to Release New Novel ‘The Book of Longings’ on April 28, 2020 “I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.” So begins the new novel from the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, an extraordinary story set in the first century about…

Pictured: Elizabeth Teeter (Lily), Anastacia McCleskey (May), LaChanze (August), Eisa Davis (June), Sue Monk Kidd, Saycon Sengbloh (Rosaleen)   On June 13, 2019 Sue attended the Off Broadway debut of The Secret Life of Bees at The Atlantic Theater. Afterwards she celebrated the performance with the cast, crew and creative team. Having sold out its…

The Secret Life of Bees World Premiere Musical will debut Off Broadway during the 2019 Spring season. Presented by The Atlantic Theater Company, the musical will open at the Linda Gross Theater in New York City. The musical is written by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat), with music by Tony and Grammy Award winner Duncan Sheik (Spring…