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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.
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The Mermaid Chair, is being adapted as an original TV movie for Lifetime Television. Randy Robinson of Randwell Productions is Executive Producer and Suzette Couture is onboard to write the script.
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On June 26, 2005, The Mermaid Chair hit the #1 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction.
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The Secret Life of Bees has been a successful and popular pick for city-wide, one-book reading programs. These programs, which originated at the Seattle Public Library, began with the idea of bringing people together around the same book. Cities that have read The Secret Life of Bees together have sponsored creative programs, including public book discussions, art exhibits, lectures, panels, school writing contests, workshops, luncheons, and dramatic performances. To learn more about what one area is doing with The Secret Life of Bees, visit Timberland Reads Together at www.trlib.org/TRT/trt.htm
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The Mermaid Chair has remained for six months on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction, while The Secret Life of Bees marks over two years on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback fiction.
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On May 16, 2005 Sue Monk Kidd read from her novel The Mermaid Chair at the Lincoln Center in New York as part of “A Gala Evening of Readings”. The event was a benefit for Literacy Partners and “a celebration of the power of the written word.” The other three readers were Edward P. Jones, Lauren Bacall and Renee Fleming. The evening raised $1.1 million dollars for literacy in New York City.
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There are presently over 4.5 million copies of The Secret Life of Bees in print in the U.S. , and over 850,000 hardback copies of The Mermaid Chair in print.
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The Mermaid Chair has been chosen as the main selection of the Book of the Month Club and featured alternate of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club.
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The Mermaid Chair will be translated and published in the following countries: UK, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Portugal, Norway, Finland, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Spain, Brazil, Israel, France, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Greece, Indonesia and Holland.
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La Vida Secreta de Las Abejas, a Spanish edition of The Secret Life of Bees is to be published April 5, 2005. See the Book page for details.
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