Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
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March 2, 2011: Barnes & Noble selects The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as the second place winner in the 2010 Discover Awards.
Friday, February 4th, 2011
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February 4, 2011: the New York Times talks to Rebecca Skloot about creating the Henrietta Lacks Foundation , and her hopes for the Foundation’s future. [...]
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
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January 5, 2011: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks wins the GoodReads.com Best Nonfiction Book of the Year for 2010. Rebecca Skloot Wins GoodReads.com Best [...]
Monday, December 27th, 2010
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December 27, 2010: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks appeared on over sixty “Best of the Year 2010″ lists, including the New York Times, The [...]
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
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The Washington Post named Rebecca Skloot as one of their Five Surprising Leaders of 2010, saying: Prior to 2010, Rebecca Skloot was a little-known science [...]
Monday, November 29th, 2010
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The Immortal Life has been listed as a New York Times Notable Book of 2010, and also as one of the top 10 books of [...]
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
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From National Public Radio today: “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a remarkable feat of investigative journalism and a moving work of narrative nonfiction [...]
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
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O, The Oprah Magazine has just named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as one of the Best Books of 2010, and Discover Magazine has [...]
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has just been announced as the winner of this year’s Wellcome Trust Book Prize: Ten years in the making, [...]
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
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Very exciting news, just in: Amazon has named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as the Best Book of 2010. From their announcement: Our Best [...]
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