Is an American novelist best known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s. Her childhood friend, director Tate Taylor, adapted the novel for the film La Couleur des sentiments (2011) which was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Motion Picture of the Year; Octavia Spencer won an award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.
