Skloot is currently working on a new book about the human-animal bond. She served as co-editor of The Best American Science Writing 2011 and has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. Her work has been anthologized in several collections, including Best Food Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction. She has written more than 200 feature articles, personal essays, book reviews, and news stories. Rebecca Skloot, who lives in Chicago, has a BS in biological sciences and a MFA in creative nonfiction. It also tells the story of her legacy: the. More than 250 communities, schools, and universities have chosen The Immortal Life for their common read programs. It tells the story of an African-American woman who died in 1951, aged just 31, of an aggressive cervical cancer. It has enjoyed more than four years on The New York Times bestseller list, was listed on of Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, and has been translated into more than 25 languages. The Immortal Life was selected as a best book of 2010 by over 60 media outlets including The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The American Library Association, People, The Washington Post Book World, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Boston Globe. Part detective story, part scientific odyssey, and part family saga, The Immortal Life raises fascinating questions about race, class, and bioethics in America. Her effort produced The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, and was recently made into an HBO film produced by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball. Writer and journalist Rebecca Skloot spent ten years exploring a link between medicine, sociology, and ethics when she traced a connection between medically important cancer cells and their overlooked origin in a poor black tobacco farmer.
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