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.

[4] As of August 2012, it has sold ten million copies and spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.

[9] After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City.

[11] A lawsuit was filed in a Mississippi court by Ablene Cooper, a housekeeper who used to work for Stockett's brother.

[12] A Hinds County, Mississippi judge threw the case out of court, citing the statute of limitations.