It’s been 10 years in the making, but Rebecca Skloot, assistant professor in the creative writing department at the University of Memphis, is finally seeing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown) in print.
It’s the story of a woman who died in 1951, but it’s her surviving cell line that has made her “immortal” and the source of endless — and history-making — medical research. Skloot’s book brings that story for the first time to full light. Or haven’t you heard?
