Rebecca Skloot Biography
Rebecca Skloot is a freelance science writer who specializes in science and medicine. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010).
The book was one of the best-selling new books of 2010. It stayed on The New York Times Bestseller list for over 6 years and eventually reaching #1.
It was made into a movie by George C. Wolfe, which premiered on HBO on April 22, 2017. The movie was starred by Rose Byrne as Skloot and Oprah Winfrey as Lacks’s daughter Deborah.
Rebecca Skloot Age
Rebecca was born on 19 September 1972, Springfield, Illinois, United States.
Rebecca Skloot Education
Born in Springfield, Illinois, Skloot received her high school diploma from Metropolitan Learning Center in Portland, Oregon. After attending Portland Community College and becoming a Veterinary Technician, she received a BS in biological sciences from Colorado State University. Also an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle.
Rebecca Skloot Husband
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Rebecca Skloot Career
She has taught creative writing and science journalism at the University of Pittsburgh, New York University. Also at the University of Memphis.
Skloot has published over 200 featured stories and essays. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover, and New York magazine. Skloot is also a contributing editor at Popular Science and has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab and PBS’s NOVA scienceNOW.
Her first book, the #1 New York Times bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), is about Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line (known as HeLa). The immortal cell line comes from her cancer cells in 1951. It was a New York Times notable book and was the best book of the year by more than 60 publications. It was made into an HBO film produced by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball with Rose Byrne portraying Skloot.
The book went through three publishing houses and four editors. Skloot and Henrietta’s daughter Deborah formed a link in the writing of this book, which Deborah sees as her mother’s hand guiding them.
Her second book, exploring the science and ethics of human-animal relationships, was put under contract with Crown Publishing Group in 2011. Her past work with animals in shelters, as a vet tech, in research facilities, and at an animal morgue prompted her interest in the ethical controversies surrounding animal use for science.
She discussed the topics of the book at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2013. She spoke with researchers at Harvard University about it in 2015
Rebecca Skloot Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) is a non-fiction book by American author Rebekah Skloot. It was the 2011 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best artwork that helps the general public understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine.
The book is concerning Henrietta Lacks and also the immortal cell line, known as HeLa. Hela comes from Lacks’s cervical cancer cells in 1951. Skloot became interested in Lacks after a biology teacher referenced her, but didn’t know much about her.
Skloot began conducting extensive research on her and worked with Lacks’ family to create the book. The book is notable for its science writing and handling ethical issues of race and class in medical analysis. Skloot said that some of the information was taken from the journal of Deborah Lacks, Henrietta Lacks’s daughter, as well as from “archival photos also documents, scientific and historical research.” It is Skloot’s first book.
Rebecca Skloot Books
Skloot has two books;
- The best American Science Writing- 2011
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- 2010
Rebecca Skloot Net Worth
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Rebecca Skloot Quotes
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn’t get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren’t a lot of profits.
Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.
The sort of thinking at the time was, ‘Well, we’re giving you access to medical care which you wouldn’t otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.’
Often doctors didn’t even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you and sent you home.
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