Please join us for a reading with Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning writer, and a contributing editor at
Popular Science magazine. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s RadioLab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW, and her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover, Columbia Journalism Review, Prevention, and many others. 

“Skloot’s book is wonderful -- deeply felt, gracefully written, sharply
reported. It is a story about science but, much more, about
life.”—SUSAN ORLEAN, author of The Orchid Thief

”The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings to mind the work of
Philip K. Dick and Edgar Allan Poe. But this tale is true. Rebecca
Skloot explores the racism and greed, the idealism and faith in science
that helped to save thousands of lives but nearly destroyed a family.
This is an extraordinary book, haunting and beautifully told.”—ERIC
SCHLOSSER, author of Fast Food Nation 

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