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She needed all her stagecraft to hide a horrified look when her friend, Kathryn Stockett, asked her to read her new novel, "The Help." Stockett told Spencer she based a character on her.
The runaway bestseller, "The Help," is a look back at the relationships between white women and their black maids in Mississippi in the early 1960s. The book was written by Kathryn Stockett, and ...
Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel became a best seller, but was also heavily criticized for its portrayal of Black characters. Now, she has written second novel, “The Calamity ...
Hardcover, paper, and ebook versions are simultaneous bestsellers as total sales top 7 million copies. By Andy Lewis The book version of The Help continues to be the adult publishing sensation of ...
About to hit theatres as a film, Kathryn Stockett’s story of black maids in the 1960s displays an odd indifference to the civil rights movement of the time ...
The film adaptation of the novel The Help has been critiqued for what some say is an inaccurate depiction of the life of black domestic servants in the civil rights era. Ida E. Jones of the ...
It’s inevitable, apparently: Any writer lucky enough to produce a book that spends months on the bestseller list will be sued. So, Kathryn Stockett, come on down! Stockett is the author of ...
The 2009 novel was an instant favorite among book clubs, written in the voice of black "help" by a woman raised by maids herself and who is white. Cooper, 60, maintains that the book's fictional ...