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—SUSAN ORLEAN, author of The Orchid Thief
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Archive for December, 2009

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

LA Times names Rebecca Skloot as one of their “Faces to Watch in 2010″

Today’s Los Angeles Times features Rebecca Skloot as one of their four Faces to Watch in 2010, saying:
When Rebecca Skloot was a high school student, [...]

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in Library Journal

The current issue of Library Journal features two pieces about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:  First, an essay by Skloot called “Librarians: The Secret [...]

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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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