A Hinds County, Mississippi judge threw the case out of court, citing the statute of limitations. It claimed that Stockett used her likeness in the book. Ī lawsuit was filed in a Mississippi court by Ablene Cooper, a housekeeper who used to work for Stockett's brother. Reflective of her first novel, Stockett was very close to an African American domestic worker. She lived there for 16 years and worked in magazine publishing and marketing. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City. Stockett grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. The Help climbed best seller charts a few months after it was released. As of August 2012, it has sold ten million copies and spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. The Help has since been published in 42 languages. 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. Stockett worked in magazine publishing while living in New York City before publishing her first novel, which she began writing after the September 11th attacks. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s. Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist. Kathryn Stockett speaks at the University of Alabama in 2014
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