She lives in Chicago. For more information, visit her website at, where you’ll find links to follow her on Twitter and Facebook. She has taught creative writing and science journalism at the University of Memphis, the University of Pittsburgh, and New York University. in biological sciences and an MFA in creative nonfiction. 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. It was chosen as a best book of 2010 by more than sixty media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, People, and the New York Times. 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. She was named one of five surprising leaders of 2010 by the Washington Post. 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. 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. This needs to be part of a public discussion. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it. On how she hopes students will be inspired to make a difference in the world.
And so that journey ends up being a lot of what I talk about." And then I went from that to where I am now. I thought I was going to be a veterinarian, and I failed freshman biology, which I mention in the book.
"So I hear from students and teachers all the time that for them it's really a book. Where did that come from, and how do you foster that in students?'
"The thing I hear over and over again is, 'You know, we'd really like her to come and talk about the determination. And I spent the rest of my life to this point working on trying to find answers to that question and writing the book and facing so many almost absurd hurdles along the way. "And I just followed my curiosity, and I asked these questions - 'Who is this woman?' And no one could answer me. I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on. On how the book was born of her own freshman experience They sort of turn a page and go, 'Oh, wait - that's me! My mom took that drug.' And I think that's part of what helps to sort of bring it to life within the classroom." "And there's always a point in reading the book when a student realizes that. Because there isn't a single person out there that hasn't benefitted personally from these cells, whether it's because they got the polio vaccine, or someone that they love survived cancer by being treated with a drug made using HeLa cells, or because they were conceived through, which HeLa cells helped develop in the beginning. And one of the things that I hear over and over from students and from teachers is not that it just touches all the disciplines, but it touches every student personally. "There really isn't any department within a university that can't find something specific in the book that relates to it, whether it's law, women's studies - it really does cross all of the different boundaries.
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