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“As if someone had managed to distill & purify the more addictive qualities of 'Erin Brockovich,' 'Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil' & 'The Andromeda Strain.'”
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Rebecca Skloot Talks About How Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe and Hurricane Carter Helped Her Find the Structure of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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 [...]


Monday, October 26th, 2009

Time to Register for ScienceOnline2010!

Yes folks, it’s that time again: Registration is now open for the great ScienceOnline2010 meeting …


Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Skloot’s Tips for Successful Book Reviewing

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 [...]


Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Skloot’s Tips for Successful Book Reviewing

Rebecca Skloot’s Tips for Successful Book Reviewing: “Strategies for Breaking in and Staying in: Getting started as a critic, building your reviewing portfolio, going national, and keeping editors happy.”


Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Documents for my ScienceOnline 09 Getting Published Talk

Skloot’s tips for breaking into publication and getting paid to write


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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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