Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For use in schools and libraries only. Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling numerous medical and scientific discoveries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: TURTLEBACK BOOKS
• Bound for Schoo
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780606269544
• ISBN-10: 0606269541
• Artikelnr.: 36814108

Autorenporträt

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 others. She is coeditor of The Best American Science Writing 2011 and has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. She was named one of five surprising leaders of 2010 by the Washington Post. Skloot's debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times  bestseller. It was chosen as a best book of 2010 by more than sixty media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, People, and the New York Times.  It is being translated into more than twenty-five languages, adapted into a young reader edition, and being made into an HBO film produced by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball. Skloot is the founder and president of The Henrietta Lacks Foundation. She has a B.S. in biological sciences and an MFA in creative nonfiction. She has taught creative writing and science journalism at the University of Memphis, the University of Pittsburgh, and New York University. She lives in Chicago. 

Rezensionen

No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.
Hilary Mantel Guardian