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Kathyrn Stockett: Life in a Bell Jar by William Wyatt,editor of Creative Loafing and former deputy food editor of Atlanta Magazine....

Kathryn Stockett

American novelist

Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist.

She is known for her debut novel, The Help, which is about African-Americanmaids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the s.

Career

Stockett worked in magazine publishing while living in New York City before publishing her first novel,[1] which she began writing after the September 11 attacks.[2]The Help took her five years to complete, and the book was rejected by 60 literary agents before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett.[1][3]The Help has since been published in 42 languages.[4] As of August , it has sold ten million copies and spent more than weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.[5][6]The Help climbed best seller charts a few months after it was released.[7][8]

Personal life

Stockett grew up in Jackson, Mississippi.[9] After graduating