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Stockett worked in magazine publishing while living in New York City before publishing her first novel, [1] which she began writing after the September 11 attacks. [2] The Help took her five years to complete, and the book was rejected by 60 literary agents before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett.
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-book fiction category. [2]The most popular books of the year was The Help by Kathryn Stockett, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen with respectively 15 and 8 cumulative weeks at the top.
The Help is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett published by Penguin Books in 2009. The story is about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s.
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the hardcover fiction category. [1]The most popular books of the year were The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson and The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, with respectively 8 and 6 weeks at the top.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood; The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley; The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown; Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford; The White Queen by Philippa Gregory; The Magicians by Lev Grossman; Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby; The Physick Book of Deliverance ...
The Townsend Prize for Fiction is awarded every two years to the best piece of literary fiction written and published while the author lived in Georgia. Past award winners include Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Ha Jin, Philip Lee Williams, Ferrol Sams, Kathryn Stockett, Mary Hood, and Judson Mitcham, among others.
Hospitality and travel-related roles were among some of the fastest-growing jobs, according to LinkedIn's analysis of user data. (Thomas Barwick/Digital Vision/Getty Images)
Kathryn Stockett (born 1969, US) Agnes Strickland (1796–1874, England) Olga Stringfellow (1923–1995, New Zealand) Ulrika von Strussenfelt (1801–1873, Sweden) Alex Stuart, Robyn Stuart and Vivian Stuart (1914–1986, England) Rosemary Sutcliff (1920–1992, England) Magda Szabó (1917–2007, Hungary) Noémi Szécsi (born 1976, Hungary)