Kathryn stockett full biography of king

  • Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, which is where the novel is set.
  • 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.
  • I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in , in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far.

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    This Life: Kathryn Stockett on her childhood in the Deep South


    By KATHRYN STOCKETT

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    Reflecting on her past: Kathryn Stockett today


    I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we’ve come.

    I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in , in a time and place where no one was saying, ‘Look how far we’ve come,’ because we hadn’t come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson’s population was half white and half black, I didn’t have a single black friend or a black neighbour or even a black person in my school. Evenin the s we were staunchly separated. Yet one of the closest people to me was Demetrie, our family’s black housekeeper.

    Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cook

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    So excited&#;

    After finishing her book, The Help, only two days ago I have been so excited about interviewing Kathryn Stockett. If you haven&#;t read the book yet, you have such a treat in store for you and I envy you picking this book up for the first time (it&#;s one I plan to read again at some point in the future). For anyone who missed it, my review of The Help is here.

    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 and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. The Help is her first novel.

    Taken from The Telegraph newspaper: As a child in America’s Deep South in the s, Kathryn Stockett was not really aware of the racial divides around her. Now she has written a novel about the community in s Mississippi from the point of view of the black servants.

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    Background

    Socio-Historical Context

    Stockett places the novel in a specific location and point in American history: Jackson, Mississippi, in the early s. Although the novel’s plot events are fictional, she incorporates true historical events and social attitudes to provide a portrait of real life at this time in Jackson, and in the United States at large.

    For example, the shooting of NAACP field sekreterare Medgar Evers functions within the novel as a means of building tension and fear as Aibileen and Minny wonder what could happen to them if they get caught for working on the book. Additionally, Medgar Evers’s death fryst vatten a true historical event. Evers worked to end segregation in Mississippi during the Civil Rights movement and was fatally shot by a member of Jackson’s vit Citizens’ Council in front of his house in June Stockett’s choice to incorporate this event into the novel’s rising action gives the reader a deeper understanding of the racism that characterized Jackson