The New York Times is reporting that Atlanta-based author Kathryn Stockett is facing a lawsuit from a woman employed by her brother and sister-in-law:
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.
In the complaint, Ms. Cooper argues that one of the books principal characters, Aibileen Clark, is an unauthorized appropriation of her name and image, which she finds emotionally distressing.
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