Kathryn Stockett

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Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. She is working on her second novel.

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The Help

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“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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Best Fiction

The Help
 
  1131 votes 17.3%

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
 
  658 votes 10.0%

Her Fearful Symmetry
 
  323 votes 4.9%

Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)
 
  318 votes 4.9%

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
 
  310 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
 
  295 votes 4.5%

The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
 
  275 votes 4.2%

Fool
 
  235 votes 3.6%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
 
  229 votes 3.5%

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
 
  226 votes 3.4%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
 
  224 votes 3.4%

Juliet, Naked
 
  207 votes 3.2%

Cutting for Stone
 
  190 votes 2.9%

The Little Stranger
 
  147 votes 2.2%

South of Broad
 
  144 votes 2.2%

The Story Sisters
 
  141 votes 2.2%

Pygmy
 
  140 votes 2.1%

Let the Great World Spin
 
  135 votes 2.1%

This is Where I Leave You
 
  132 votes 2.0%

Little Bee
 
  126 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn
 
  119 votes 1.8%

Drood
 
  107 votes 1.6%

The Children's Book
 
  107 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife
 
  103 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs
 
  97 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence
 
  91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic
 
  78 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
 
  70 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply
 
  70 votes 1.1%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
 
  62 votes 0.9%

The School of Essential Ingredients
 
  61 votes 0.9%

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