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

By: Kathryn Stockett

Narrated by: Diana Dapito

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

great!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

thanks audible! this is a nice free gift & provided some nice background.

Any additional comments?

good listen if you enjoyed the help

Nice Touch

What a nice touch to have an interview posted and available to listen to. I enjoyed the book and movie. Glad to hear about the author

Interesting

Was very interesting. Loved the story so was nice to here about her inspiration.

Informative

I loved hearing the personal side of this story. Ms. Stockett has a grasp on the culture and feel of the era.

home run... hit it out of the park!!!

loved it beyond measure. I'm from the south and this just spoke so clearly to the complicated relationship between blacks and whites.