Sometimes just telling your story is the best thing you can do to change the world.

Sometimes just telling your story is the best thing you can do to change the world.



Kathryn Stockett, Author of The Help
By Claire Suddath
TIME
Nov. 11, 2009

Kathryn Stockett never intended to write a best-selling novel. In fact, when she started writing her debut novel, The Help, she didn't think anyone would ever read it. But since coming out in February, her story about the complicated relationships between African-American domestic servants and the white women who employed them in pre-civil rights Mississippi has spent over 30 weeks on the New York Times' best-seller list. Stockett talked to TIME about growing up in Mississippi and what it's like being a white woman from the South writing from the perspective of African-American maids...