Her first novel, "The Secret Life of Bees" (Viking, 2002), was completed over three and a half years and was adapted into a feature film of the same name starring Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo.
Her first novel, "The Secret Life of Bees" (Viking, 2002), was completed over three and a half years. It has been produced on stage in New York by The American Place Theater and been adapted into a movie by Fox Searchlight, starring Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo.