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Gênero literário. Romance. Página oficial. www.KathrynStockett.com. Kathryn Stockett ( Jackson, Mississipi, 1969) é uma escritora norte-americana, conhecida por seu romance de estreia, The Help, acerca de empregadas domésticas afro-americanas que trabalham em lares brancos, na década de 1960.
Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s.
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The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. Aibileen is a maid who takes care of children and cleans. Her own 24-year-old son, Treelore, died from an accident on his job. In the story, she is tending the...
A film adaptation of The Help was released on August 10, 2011. Stockett's childhood friend Tate Taylorwrote and directed the film. Parts of The Help were shot in Jackson, MS, but the film was primarily shot in and around Greenwood, MS, representing Jackson in 1963. At the 84th Academy Awards, Octavia Spencer won the Academy Award for Best Supportin...
Ablene Cooper, a housekeeper who once worked for Stockett's brother, criticized the author for stealing her life story without her knowledge and basing the character Aibileen on her likeness. Cooper sued Stockett for $75,000 in damages. Cooper also criticized her for making the racist comparison of her character's skin color to that of a cockroach....
Learn about the life and work of Kathryn Stockett, the author of The Help, a bestselling novel inspired by her childhood memories of black domestic help in South. Find out how she overcame rejection, wrote from a black perspective, and turned her story into a film.
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.
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The Help (lançado no Brasil como Histórias Cruzadas e em Portugal como As Serviçais) é o romance de estreia da escritora norte-americana Kathryn Stockett. Trata da vida de empregadas domésticas afro-americanas que trabalham nas casas de pessoas brancas em Jackson, Mississippi durante o início dos anos 1960.
10 de fev. de 2009 · The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. The Help is set in the early 1960's in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan.
