Thursday, March 4th, 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Climbs to #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List
Very exciting news: Next week, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will be listed as #2 on the NYT Bestseller List.
“Rebecca Skloot has written a marvelous book so original that it defies easy description ... It’s part The Wire, part The Lives of the Cell, and all fascinating.”—CARL ZIMMER, author of Microcosm
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Very exciting news: Next week, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will be listed as #2 on the NYT Bestseller List.
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Less than a week after its publication, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has hit the New York Times Bestseller List at #5!
Monday, January 25th, 2010
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 [...]
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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 [...]
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Today the Barnes and Noble Review posted “20 Books We’re Waiting For” in 2010, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was on it, with [...]
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Slate’s new Double X magazine has a new story by Rebecca Skloot: “Enough With Patenting the Breast Cancer Gene: The New Lawsuit That Could Prevent [...]
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
After seven years serving as a vice president on the National Book Critics Circle board of directors, Skloot has just finished her second term. While on [...]
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
We’re pleased to announce that, starting in May 2009, Rebecca Skloot will be writing a weekly science and health column for Slate’s new Double X [...]
Monday, March 16th, 2009
That’s right, after many (many, many) years, rebeccaskloot.com has gotten an overhaul, thanks to the wonderful Pat Walters and Jeremy Bowers. It’s a work in progress [...]