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“Reads like a novel...Deftly crafted...Henrietta Lacks comes fully alive on the page.”
—Eric Roston, Washington Post
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March 4, 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Climbs to #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List

Very exciting news: Next week, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will be listed as #2 on the NYT Bestseller List.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.

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