Friday, May 27th, 2011
On May 14, 2011, children of Roanoke, VA (Henrietta Lacks’s hometown) celebrated “Henrietta Lacks Day” and participated in a HeLa 4 Life Bike-a-Thon fundraiser at […]
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
“The intrigue of this book is that it’s a science book and it’s as much a page-turner as The Da Vinci Code, says Liz Funk […]
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has won the Audie Award for Best Non-Fiction Audiobook of 2011 (Random House Audio, unabridged, read by Cassandra Campbell […]
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Another great interview with Rebecca Skloot, this one with the A.V. Club (Chicago). In it, Rebecca answers often-asked questions about writing The Immortal Life and […]
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Dr. Henrietta Lacks — a fitting tribute to Henrietta’s profound contributions to medical research: Henrietta Lacks was just honored with a posthumous degree by Baltimore’s […]
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Host Ira Flatow and authors Douglas Starr and Deborah Blum suggest their current favorite science reading material – and respond to listeners’ suggestions on NPR’s […]
Monday, May 16th, 2011
Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Awards (MJA OBA) awarded The Immortal Life its top award in “general readership non-fiction.” This book, which tells the story […]
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
The Journal of the History of Medicine calls The Immortal Life a “remarkable book” and envisions its use in diverse classrooms for years to come: […]
Monday, May 9th, 2011
“If you have read and enjoyed Siddhartha Mukherjee’s impressive The Emperor of Maladies, a Biography of Cancer,” says book reviewer Mims Cushing, “you will find […]
Friday, May 6th, 2011
The Boston Globe bestseller list is once again topped by The Immortal Life. The Globe’s “Off the Shelf” blog notes that The Immortal Life “continues […]