The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Help by Kathryn Stockett, which is set in the United States of the 1960s when segregation and racism were rife. It centres around a white woman who decides to collect the testimonies of black maids to illustrate segregation, and of the two maids who risk their lives to help her with her project. The novel spent over two years on The New York Times Best Seller list and has been translated into over 40 different languages. Stockett grew up in Missippi and was very close to an African American domestic worker, and this relationship is thought to have inspired her popular debut novel.
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries
American novelist
Born in Jackson (United States) in 1969
Work:
The Help (2009), novel
Kathryn Stockett is a contemporary writer. She was born in 1969 to a white family in Jackson, in the state of Mississippi (United States). After studying English and Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, she settled in New York, where she worked for several years as an editor for a magazine. She has lived in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia since 2001.
Growing up in Mississippi in the seventies, she was directly confronted with the question of the relationships between black and white people in the United States, and especially in the southern states. She partly owes her inspiration for her first novel, The Help, published in 2009, to this personal experience.
A polyphonic novel
Genre: novel
Reference edition: Stockett, K. (2009) The Help. New York: Amy Einhorn Books.