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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Archive for January, 2010

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Boston Globe Rave Review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Boston Globe loves The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Their review says, among other things:
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’’ is a fascinating read [...]


Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Washington Post Loves The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

A rave review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in The Washington Post today, which says, among other things:
This book, labeled “science — cultural [...]


Sunday, January 31st, 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Lacks Family on ABC World News Tonight

Set your TiVos and your DVRs, mark your calendars: Tonight Rebecca Skloot will be on ABC World News talking about her new book, The Immortal [...]


Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Excerpt from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Now Online

The current issue of O, the Oprah Magazine features a lengthy excerpt from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and that excerpt just went online [...]


Monday, January 25th, 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in Wired: Visual Map of HeLa’s Contributions

Wired magazine has just published a piece about my book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, with this wonderful visual map showing the myriad ways [...]


Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Chicago Tribune Loves The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

I’m so honored: Today in a great piece about new science books over at the Chicago Tribune, the amazing Pulitzer Prize winning narrative journalist Julia [...]


Friday, January 22nd, 2010

USA Today Names The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as a Winter Book to Watch For

Scroll through USA Today’s winter books to watch for, which includes The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.


Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Excerpt of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in March Oprah Magazine

This week, a lengthy excerpt from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks hit newsstands in the February issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. It’s not [...]


Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Popular Science Magazine Names “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” as Its February Book of the Month

Popular Science Magazine just named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as their book of the Month for February 2010, calling her story “remarkable,” and [...]


Friday, January 8th, 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Gets Starred Kirkus Review

Much to the dismay of those in publishing world, Kirkus magazine recently announced that it was going out of business.  In what was to be [...]


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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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