Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. The Help is her first novel.
The Help is about a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the black ladies, maids that every fa...
