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Books by Rebecca Skloot

Daughter of celebrated poet and novelist Floyd Skloot, Rebecca Skloot is an American freelance science writer. Former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle, she is a contributing editor at Popular Science and has published over 200 featured essays and short stories in newspapers, such as The New York Times, Discover, and the New York magazine. Skloot has received many awards for her writing and lavish praises for her debut book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Named one of the best books of 2010 by numerous publications – and turned into a blockbuster HBO movie starring Oprah Winfrey in 2017– “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the fascinating account of how a poor tobacco farmer of African American origin by the name of Henrietta Lacks died in relative obscurity to become the unlikely originator of HeLa, the first immortal cell line widely used in scientific research.

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