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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 26 > An unexpected best-seller

An unexpected best-seller

First-time author Kathryn Stockett has people talking with new novel

By Chris Talbott / The Bulletin
April 26, 2009

JACKSON, Miss. — Good thing Octavia Spencer is an actress. She needed all her stagecraft to hide a horrified look when her friend, Kathryn Stockett, asked her to read her new novel, “The Help.”

Stockett told Spencer she based a character on her.

“My face....

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