I was really homesick I couldn't even call my family and tell them I was fine. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. (See pictures of the last days of Martin Luther King Jr.) Stockett talked to TIME about growing up in Mississippi and what it's like being a white woman from the South writing from the perspective of African-American maids. But since coming out in February, her story about the complicated relationships between African-American domestic servants and the white women who employed them in pre-civil rights Mississippi has spent over 30 weeks on the New York Times' best-seller list. In fact, when she started writing her debut novel, The Help, she didn't think anyone would ever read it.
Follow Stockett never intended to write a best-selling novel.
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