Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Contact: David Drake 212-782-9001; ddrake@randomhouse.com THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS AUTHOR REBECCA SKLOOT TO EXPLORE HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND IN NEW BOOK FOR CROWN (New York, […]
Monday, March 28th, 2011
In Colette Bancroft’s recent profile of Rebecca Skloot in the St. Petersburg Times, Rebecca describes the Immortal Book Tour: “I left my house on Jan. […]
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
The Washington Post named Rebecca Skloot as one of their Five Surprising Leaders of 2010, saying: Prior to 2010, Rebecca Skloot was a little-known science […]
Monday, November 29th, 2010
The Immortal Life has been listed as a New York Times Notable Book of 2010, and also as one of the top 10 books of […]
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has just been announced as the winner of this year’s Wellcome Trust Book Prize: Ten years in the making, […]
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Very exciting news, just in: Amazon has named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as the Best Book of 2010. From their announcement: Our Best […]
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
In a historic reversal of a longstanding and controversial policy, the U.S. Government has just filed a legal brief saying that genes should not be […]
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
This just in: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has been named as a finalist for the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, which celebrates medicine […]
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Today, the Henrietta Lacks Foundation awarded its first ever grants thanks to proceeds from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, and donations […]
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Tomorrow, the town of Turner Station just outside of Baltimore will place a historic marker at 713 New Pittsburgh Ave, the home where Henrietta Lacks […]