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Kathryn Stockett

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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 Mississippi and New York City.

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The Help

4.47 avg rating — 3,052,575 ratings — published 2009 — 271 editions
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The Calamity Club

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Quotes by Kathryn Stockett  (?)
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“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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The Help
 
  1122 votes 17.3%

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
 
  653 votes 10.0%

Her Fearful Symmetry
 
  319 votes 4.9%

Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)
 
  315 votes 4.8%

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
 
  307 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
 
  292 votes 4.5%

The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
 
  273 votes 4.2%

Fool
 
  232 votes 3.6%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
 
  228 votes 3.5%

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
 
  226 votes 3.5%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
 
  223 votes 3.4%

Juliet, Naked
 
  206 votes 3.2%

Cutting for Stone
 
  187 votes 2.9%

The Little Stranger
 
  146 votes 2.2%

South of Broad
 
  144 votes 2.2%

The Story Sisters
 
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Pygmy
 
  137 votes 2.1%

Let the Great World Spin
 
  134 votes 2.1%

This is Where I Leave You
 
  130 votes 2.0%

Little Bee
 
  126 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn
 
  119 votes 1.8%

Drood
 
  107 votes 1.6%

The Children's Book
 
  104 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife
 
  103 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs
 
  96 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence
 
  91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic
 
  77 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
 
  69 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply
 
  69 votes 1.1%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
 
  62 votes 1.0%

The School of Essential Ingredients
 
  60 votes 0.9%

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