蘇·濛剋·基德（Sue Monk Kidd），美國著名女作傢，少女時代深受梭羅的影響。她的文字雋永優美，能觸及人心深處最柔軟的部分。從自然的靈性中尋找迴歸的自我，發掘靈魂的美麗，足常常縈繞在她字裏行間的主題．小說《蜜蜂的秘密生活》以及《美人魚椅子》為她贏得各種奬項和提名。

《 The Secret Life of Bees 》描述瞭生活在 1960s 的 14 歲女孩莉莉自幼喪母，與父親相處並不融洽，與他相依為伴的隻有黑人姑娘羅薩林，由於當時種族歧視嚴重，羅薩林也受到瞭殘酷的對待，這樣兩個女孩決定離傢齣走 ... 她們遇見瞭樂觀獨立的鮑特萊三姐妹，在這三姐妹的蜜蜂養殖場裏莉莉和羅薩林 經曆瞭很多奇妙的體驗 ...

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father, they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother.