Rebecca
Skloot is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared
in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; and
others. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR's Radiolab and PBS's
NOVA scienceNOW, and is a contributing editor at Popular Science
magazine and guest editor of The Best American Science Writing 2011.
She is a former Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle and
has taught creative nonfiction and science journalism at the University
of Memphis, the University of Pittsburgh, and New York University. Her
debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than ten
years to research and write, and became an instant New York Times
bestseller. She has been featured on numerous television shows,
including CBS Sunday Morning and The Colbert Report. Her book has
received widespread critical acclaim, with reviews appearing in The… Read more
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Rebecca
Skloot is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared
in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; and
others. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR's Radiolab and PBS's
NOVA scienceNOW, and is a contributing editor at Popular Science
magazine and guest editor of The Best American Science Writing 2011.
She is a former Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle and
has taught creative nonfiction and science journalism at the University
of Memphis, the University of Pittsburgh, and New York University. Her
debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than ten
years to research and write, and became an instant New York Times
bestseller. She has been featured on numerous television shows,
including CBS Sunday Morning and The Colbert Report. Her book has
received widespread critical acclaim, with reviews appearing in The New
Yorker, Washington Post, Science, Entertainment Weekly, People, and
many others. It won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the
Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and was named The Best Book of 2010 by
Amazon.com, and a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly; O, The
Oprah Magazine; The New York Times; Washington Post; US News &
World Report; and numerous others.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks is being translated into more than twenty languages, and adapted
into a young adult book, and an HBO film produced by Oprah Winfrey and
Alan Ball. Skloot lives in Chicago but regularly abandons city life to
write in the hills of West Virginia, where she tends to find stray
animals and bring them home. She travels extensively to speak about her
book. For more information, visit RebeccaSkloot.com, where you will
find book special features, including photos and videos, as well as her
book tour schedule, and links to follow her and The Immortal Life on
Twitter and Facebook.
Rebecca
L. Skloot (pronounced /ˈskluːt/) is a freelance science writer who
specializes in science and medicine. Her first book, The Immortal Life
of Henrietta Lacks (2010), was one of the best-selling new books of the
year, staying on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 32 weeks
and optioned to be made into a movie by Oprah Winfrey. Read more – Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon
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