Rebecca Skloot (Author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)

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Rebecca Skloot

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Rebecca Skloot is an award winning science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; and many other publications. She specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics, including goldfish surgery, tissue ownership rights, race and medicine, food politics, and packs of wild dogs in Manhattan. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC鈥檚 Radiolab and PBS鈥檚 Nova ScienceNOW. She and her father, , are co-editors of . You can read a selection of Rebecca Skloot's magazine writing on of this site.

, Skloot's debut book, took more than a decade to research Rebecca Skloot is an award winning science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; and many other publications. She specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics, including goldfish surgery, tissue ownership rights, race and medicine, food politics, and packs of wild dogs in Manhattan. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC鈥檚 Radiolab and PBS鈥檚 Nova ScienceNOW. She and her father, , are co-editors of . You can read a selection of Rebecca Skloot's magazine writing on of this site.

, Skloot's debut book, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times best-seller. She has been , including CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, Fox Business News, and others, and was named by the Washington Post. The Immortal Life was chosen as a best book of 2010 by more than 60 media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, O the Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, People Magazine, New York Times, and U.S. News and World Report; it was named by Amazon.com and a Barnes and Noble . It has won numerous awards, including the , the , and two 欧宝娱乐 Choice Awards for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and Best Debut Author of the year. It has received with reviews appearing in The New Yorker, Washington Post, Science, and many others. Dwight Garner of the New York Times said, "I put down Rebecca Skloot's first book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," more than once. Ten times, probably. Once to poke the fire. Once to silence a pinging BlackBerry. And eight times to chase my wife and assorted visitors around the house, to tell them I was holding one of the most graceful and moving nonfiction books I've read in a very long time 鈥t has brains and pacing and nerve and heart.鈥� See the for more reactions to the book.

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	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 776,460 ratings — published 2010 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2015 by Tim Folger, Rebecca Skloot (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Kim Todd (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 722 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Young Adult Edition by Gregory Mone (欧宝娱乐 Author) (adapter), Rebecca Skloot (欧宝娱乐 Author) 4.09 avg rating — 541 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science Writing 2011 by Rebecca Skloot (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Floyd Skloot (欧宝娱乐 Author), Jesse Cohen 3.89 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Like the Bible said,' Gary whispered, 'man brought nothing into this world and he'll carry nothing out. Sometimes we care about stuff too much. We worry when there's nothing to worry about.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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“She's the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?”
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“But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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