An Interview with Kathryn Stockett, Author of 'The Help'

By: Kathryn Stockett

Narrated by: Diana Dapito

Length: 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Kathryn Stockett is the best-selling author of The Help, Audible's 2009 pick for Audiobook of the Year. In this interview she tells us about her role in choosing the book's narrator, and reveals what she's working on next.

About The Help:

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared, and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her 17th white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another.

Listen to The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett.

©2009 Audible (P)2009 Audible

Interesting interview

Where does An Interview with Kathryn Stockett, Author of 'The Help' rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

around the middle, considering it is a recording of an interview over the phone.

Any additional comments?

If you love the book The Help, you should be interested in the interview with the author.

Thank You for the Insight Kayheryn

A lovely short insight into the making of The Help, one of the BEST novels ever written. It only goes to show that it pays to take constructive criticism to improve on your idea - you just might end up with a winner.

You were doing a decent enough job madame interviewer Diana, until the low-blow plug of the Bees book... twice..., which had absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand. 😒 (-1 star)

First-Rate

Actors were amazing. "The Help" must be read on audible to have the best read possible. I started to read the book and then quickly switched to audible to get the voices right. This book was unusual in that each major character had their own voice in the story, and those "voices" were brought to the reader by three separate actors.

Informative and interesting

Can't wait to listen to the book!!! Trying to figure out where the 18 hours will come from....

Loved the interview

What made the experience of listening to An Interview with Kathryn Stockett, Author of 'The Help' the most enjoyable?

Just hearing the author's voice and thoughts about the book and the characters in the book and the ladies that played them in the movie.

Any additional comments?

I have not read or listened to the book -- but the interview made me want to read the book now that I've watched the movie and just loved it 2 times in a row.

Good for fans

If you have already read the book, the interview will be interesting. If not, you'll be lost. She asks a lot of questions about specific characters and plot lines. She doesn't give away a lot (which is good) but doesn't ask a lot of questions to introduce a new reader to the book.

Always cool hearing from the Author first hand.

You don't always get to hear from the Author but it's always fun and interesting.

Favorite Book

I could not wait to hear the interview with Kathryn Stockett. This was my favorite book and I really wanted to hear her perspective and intentions when she started writing "The Help"

This interview inspired me to read the book.

I listened to this interview on a whim. I generally ignore fiction best-sellers, and so had not even considered reading The Help. But I found the interview so intriguing that I then read the book. Incredible! It might be time to reconsider my policy of disregarding best-sellers...

Good Interview

This interview helped me deciding book purchase.Great interview and the book in in my library now.