Novel Research

Kathryn Stockett is the author of the novel 'The Help' she grew up in Jackson , Mississippi where the scene is set for the book. She graduated with a degree in English and Creative writing from the University of Alabama. The Help is her first novel and it has been greatly succesful she published it in New York and stayed there for nine years. Kathryn currently lives in Atlanta with her family. Her book spent over 30 weeks on the New York Times best sellers list this was greatly unexpected for Stockett. Her inspiration for the book came from being homesick growing up as a white girl in the south she had a maid who was the base of the main character in the story , Aibileen. Throughout writing the novel she had many rejection letters from literary agents and was worried about being so young and writing about the dialect of African Americans.She is currently writing a second novel and there is to be a movie of The Help coming out in summer 2011.



http://www.kathrynstockett.com/