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Interview

Kathryn Stockett explains the genesis of her first novel, The Help, about three very different women whose lives intersect in s Mississippi.

What was the genesis of the novel?
Growing up in Mississippi, almost every family I knew had a black woman working in their house&#;cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the white children.

That was life in Mississippi. I was young and assumed that&#;s how most of America lived.

When I moved to New York, though, I realized my &#;normal&#; wasn&#;t quite the same as the rest of America&#;s.

Kathryn stockett author biography template

I knew a lot of Southerners in the city, and every now and then we&#;d talk about what we missed from the South. Inevitably, somebody would start talking about the maid they grew up with, some little thing that made us all remember&#;Alice&#;s good hamburgers or riding in the back seat to take Willy May home.

Everybody had a story to tell.

Twenty years later, with a million things t