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“I could not put the book down...Through Lacks, the story of modern medicine and bioethics — and, indeed, race relations — is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”
—Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly
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“Tales of a Literary Dynasty” on Rebecca Skloot and her father Floyd Skloot

Skloot is profiled in the current issue of Colorado State University’s alumni magazine:  “Tales of a Literary Dynasty: Between them, father and daughter writers Floyd and Rebecca Skloot have produced quite the body of work. Or maybe that should be work of the body – human and otherwise,” by John Calderazzo.

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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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