“Vivid...Reads like a novel...A Deftly crafted investigation of a social wrong committed by the medical establishment as well as the scientific and medical miracles to which it led.”—Eric Roston, Washington Post
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Amazon.com calls The Immortal Life one of the “must-reads of the year,” naming it one of the top ten “Best Books of the Year” to [...]
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
A serious conflict of interest and transparency problem has arisen on ScienceBlogs. Like several other bloggers here, I’m now on a Pepsi-Induced Hiatus, however like like David Dobb’s and Blake Stacy, my hiatus from ScienceBlogs will be permanent.
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
In a video interview on the Read and Roll show: “Skloot explains how two unlikely influences helped her shape “a rare and powerful combination of [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Very exciting news: Oprah and Alan Ball have teamed up with HBO to create the film version of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Can [...]
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, October 5th, 2009
It’s fitting that today — the day after the 58th anniversary of Henrietta Lacks’s death — the Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to [...]
