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

Short and sweet!!

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I loved The Help! I listened to this after I finished "The Help" because I wanted a little more of Kathryn Stockett's own story. Really, she is so sweet and genuine.
It is a joy hearing her talk about the making of The Help. However, this was an interview audio and I don't know that I would listen to more than a short piece of an interview on a single book or movie.

The interview covers some back story about the voice talent on the audio book and some news on the movie and such.

If you’ve listened to books by Kathryn Stockett before, how does this one compare?

no I haven't

Any additional comments?

not the interview, unless it was added to the 'end' of the movie - like how a movie came to be sort of thing.

Actors read the speaking lines which help hold my children's attention on a road trip

The different voices made it seem like masterpiece theater.

Well done. We listened to this in the car on a road trip. It made for great discussion with my family. My teenage girls had a chance to digest the book before watching the movie.

Great interview with an adorable freshman novelist

I listened to this after I finished "The Help" because I wanted a little more of Kathryn Stockett's own story. She is so adorable and humbled by the success of her novel, it is a joy to listen to her discuss it.

Includes some back story about the voice talent on the audio book and some news on the movie (which of course is out by this time, but was just in discussions during the interview), which shows the connection to the audio book and the movie. She also discusses other projects that she was working on that don't seem to be available on Audible or Amazon, so I'm interested to see where those are at or if they are going to happen.

Worth a Quick Listen

What did you like best about An Interview with Kathryn Stockett, Author of 'The Help'? What did you like least?

Her background in Mississippi

Would you recommend An Interview with Kathryn Stockett, Author of 'The Help' to your friends? Why or why not?

If you like The Help, I think this is worth hearing.

Which scene was your favorite?

Her talking about her own maid.

Did An Interview with Kathryn Stockett, Author of 'The Help' inspire you to do anything?

No

thanks audible

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

this was a nice bonus. thanks audible for making this free, i appreciated the extra insight into the audiobook.

Would you recommend An Interview with Kathryn Stockett, Author of 'The Help' to your friends? Why or why not?

if you've listened to the audiobook The Help, do pick this up!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

well, there already is an oscar winning film from the

A short visit with Genious and Gentility

This was a delightful addition to the recently read (and loved) book "The Help". Kathryn Stockett is kind enough to sit with us a while and discuss her writing and even her current project. It was delightful bliss.

Listen to the book first!!!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Any additional comments?

This interview let's in more than it should, giving away part of the end of the book. My advice is get the book first!

Very excited to listen to this!

This book..I just couldn't let go out of my head so I own the audio book, physical book and the dvd of the movie as well!
Totally had no idea there was an interview of the author and after listening I would say I really enjoyed it.
*Minus one star because the quality of Kathryn's part was not good.
Was she sick or was it the telephone line that was not clear..?
Anyways, I'm so glad that she's writing another book and more excited about prequel of The Help!

Great Understanding

The interview helped me understand how the idea of the book came about and the whole process for the book and the movie came to be and a greater knowledge of the author herself. Loved it.