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Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer, and author of the New York Times Bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It tells the story of HeLa -- the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture (pictured in the blog's banner) -- the woman those cells came from, and the family she left behind. The book has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, and many others. To see those segments and find information, reviews, book special features, and more, visit her website. Skloot is also a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine; she's worked as a correspondent for WNYC's RadioLab, and PBS's Nova ScienceNOW. Her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover and others.
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More on Henrietta Lacks's New Grave Marker
Category: HeLa • Publication News and Followups • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks • Women and Science
Posted on: May 31, 2010 3:19 PM, by Rebecca Skloot
Anyone interested in Henrietta Lacks and the grave marker finally placed on her long unmarked grave this weekend should click here immediately for a beautiful post by scientist David Kroll, who attended the unveiling ceremony. It's filled with beautiful photos of the day, and a tribute to all Henrietta's cells did for science. His photo below shows Henrietta's new headstone in much sharper detail than the one I posted yesterday with the text of the inscription. Visit his post for many more photos of the ceremony, the graveyard, and Henrietta's family.
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Wonderful work, Rebecca. You should be very, very proud.
Posted by: Isis the Scientist | May 31, 2010 10:53 PM
If I remember correctly from your book, it was unclear exactly which grave was Henrietta's in the family plot. So has her grave been identified or is the marker placed in the general vicinity of her grave?
Either way, this is a really a wonderful thing to have happened.
Posted by: Mark F. | June 1, 2010 12:49 PM
Hi. I am in a bookclub and we are reading your book for the month of July. I loved the book and the history in the book. I can't wait to discuss the book with my fellow readers.
Posted by: Jewel S. | June 18, 2010 5:46 PM
Thanks for this. I love that it's shaped like a book.
Speaking of which: Your book knocked my socks off. Thanks for that too.
Posted by: Ron Sullivan | June 30, 2010 1:54 AM