Family Maid Files Suit Against Author of ‘The Help’

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
February 17, 2011
New York Times

Penguin Group USA

The cover of “The Help,” a novel by Kathryn Stockett.JACKSON, Miss. – There is “The Help” and then there is the help. And she is not happy.

Ablene Cooper, a 60-year-old woman who has long worked as a maid, has filed a lawsuit against Kathryn Stockett, the author of the best-selling novel, “The Help,” about black maids working for white families in Jackson in the 1960s.