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“Reads like a novel...Deftly crafted...Henrietta Lacks comes fully alive on the page.”
—Eric Roston, Washington Post
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Rebecca Skloot and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Live on WHYY’s Radio Times

Rebecca Skloot just finished a great hour-long in-studio interview with WHYY’s Radio Times.  The segment aired live, but you can now listen to it online [...]


Saturday, November 14th, 2009

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on Cover of Publishers Weekly, an Excerpt, and More

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly this week. Inside that issue was a profile of Skloot with [...]


Sunday, October 25th, 2009

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Tour – Bring HeLa to Your Town

Skloot has just launched an interactive map as part of organizing a grass-roots tour for her upcoming book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She [...]


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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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