Ann Kidd Taylor, author portrait
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Ann Kidd Taylor

Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College in South Carolina. She has published articles and essays in Skirt! magazine in Charleston, South Carolina, where she worked for two years after college as an editorial assistant. She left to pursue a career in writing, working on a book about her travels, which evolved into Traveling with Pomegranates, a memoir she coauthored with her mother, Sue Monk Kidd. Author of the novel The Shark Club, Ann lives in Florida with her husband and son.

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