The Help is a 2011 American period drama film directed and written by Tate Taylor and based on Kathryn Stockett\'s 2009 novel of the same name. Set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s, the film tells the story of a young white woman and aspiring journalist Eugenia "S
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. A USA Today article called it one of the "summer sleeper hits". An early review in The New York Times notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal household connections", and says the book is a "button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the book: "This heartbreaking story is a stunning début from a gifted talent."