“Reads like a novel...Deftly crafted...Henrietta Lacks comes fully alive on the page.”—Eric Roston, Washington Post
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
In a wonderful review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the current issue of Entertainment Weekly gives Skloot’s book an “A,” saying: “Through Lacks, [...]
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Unbelievably wonderful review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in today’s New York Times!
A thorny and provocative book about cancer, racism, scientific ethics and [...]
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
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
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 [...]
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
Friday, January 8th, 2010
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Today’s Los Angeles Times features Rebecca Skloot as one of their four Faces to Watch in 2010, saying:
When Rebecca Skloot was a high school student, [...]
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
The current issue of Library Journal features two pieces about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: First, an essay by Skloot called “Librarians: The Secret [...]
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is featured in the December issue of Booklist, with a wonderful starred review (see below) and “Story Behind the [...]
