{"id":928,"date":"2008-04-03T18:05:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/speakerseries\/?p=180"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:34:17","slug":"sue-monk-kidd-a-night-with-sue-monk-kidd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/2008\/04\/03\/sue-monk-kidd-a-night-with-sue-monk-kidd\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Monk Kidd: A Night with Sue Monk Kidd"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"height: 341px\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\" width=\"606\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"282\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/speakerseries\/files\/2011\/02\/Kidd-Sigrid-Estrada-credit-cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/speakerseries\/files\/2011\/02\/Kidd-Sigrid-Estrada-credit-cropped-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>Featured Guest:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Sue Monk Kidd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Talk:<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8220;A Night with Sue Monk Kidd  &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nCo-Sponsored by EVOKE<\/p>\n<p><em>Date &amp; Location: <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, April 3, 2008, 7:30  p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nGentile Center, LSC<br \/>\n6525 North Sheridan Road<\/p>\n<p>Cost:<br \/>\n<strong>This event is now free. <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Best selling author, Sue Monk Kidd offers personal insights into her  calling as a writer. She examines her career choices and provides the story  within the story. Her highly regarded first book, <em><strong>God&#8217;s Joyful  Surprise<\/strong><\/em>, was a &#8220;spiritual memoir&#8221; and the culmination of her  intellectual and spiritual growth. Ms. Monk Kidd&#8217;s <strong><em>The Mermaid  Chair<\/em><\/strong> was nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin  Literary Award and won the 2005 Quill Award in General Fiction. Her best-selling  novel <strong><em>The Secret Life of Bees<\/em><\/strong> has been acclaimed a  literary success. Currently living in South Carolina, Sue Monk Kidd is a woman  of faith and strength, who puts her beliefs into her work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ticket Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For tickets contact Evoke at 773  508-8023 or <a href=\"mailto:evoke@luc.edu\">evoke@luc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event will be ticketed. Tickets are free to both members of the Loyola  Community and the general public. Tickets are on first come, first served basis  by calling Evoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Guest: Sue Monk Kidd Featured Talk: &#8220;A Night with Sue Monk Kidd &#8220; Co-Sponsored by EVOKE Date &amp; Location: Thursday, April 3, 2008, 7:30 p.m. Gentile Center, LSC 6525 North Sheridan Road Cost: This event is now free. Best selling author, Sue Monk Kidd offers personal insights into her calling as a writer. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5858],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}