Monday, August 8th, 2011
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On July 29, 2011, The Immortal Life was a “double jeopardy” question on the TV Quiz Show Jeopardy!. Rebecca Skloot was flooded with emails, tweets, [...]
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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Rebecca Skloot has been named the winner of the 21st Century Award, given by the Chicago Public Library and the Chicago Public Library Foundation as [...]
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is being translated into more than twenty-five languages. Each international edition has its own unique cover, and we’ve gathered [...]
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
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“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a book at once deeply personal and profoundly universal,” writes Kathy Hickman in her monthly column, The Reading [...]
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
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Time magazine’s Pack Your (Book) Bag feature (“the best pages to turn this summer, from 23 authors we admire”) reports that bestselling novelist Sapphire (author [...]
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
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In March 1976, Rolling Stone published “The Double-Edged Helix,” an article by Michael Rogers which “unknowingly helped lay the foundation for the captivating current bestseller.” [...]
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
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In this interview with Vick Mickunas – creator of the Book Nook author interview program for WYSO, the NPR affiliate in Dayton, OH – Rebecca [...]
Monday, March 28th, 2011
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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. [...]
Friday, March 4th, 2011
If you have read The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, we want to hear from you! Since the book was published, readers of all kinds [...]
Friday, March 4th, 2011
If your book group is reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, we’d like to hear about it. Tell us about your experiences with the [...]
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