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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever ...

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Rebeca Skloot is the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine, among others. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s RadioLab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW, and blogs about science, life, and writing at Culture Dish, hosted by Seed magazine. She also teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Memphis.

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No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.
*Guardian*

A heartbreaking account of racism and injustice . . . Moving and magnificent.
*Metro*

An extraordinary mix of memoir and science reveals the story of how one woman’s cells have saved countless lives.
*Daily Telegraph*

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