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1 Kathryn Stockett Short Biography

2 KATHRYN STOCKETT Born in 1969 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. She lived there for 16 years and worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years.  The Help is her first novel.

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4 2009 2011

5 The Help took her five years to complete.
The book was rejected by 60 literary agents before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett.  The Help has since been published in 42 languages. As of August 2012, it had sold ten million copies and spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.


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