#  An Evening with Rebecca Skloot  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 29, 2015** 

 05:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street**  



 

 



 

[Rebecca Skloot](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rebeccaskloot.com_&d=BQMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=p8ZqN9Dep8nItJnApj1XpOfFSHv15amollZsNwVkUWE&m=mVXm04pzH1icKhFRsk7cXigKtM_Ge9aFLOvJ0ZRBFJk&s=RS_OnPfk5YAAcjyU2L9x2FuIm81pTN2nGDGSD-vec7I&e=), author of the award-winning book *The Immortal Life of Henrietta* *Lacks*, presents a lecture and discussion about her book and her path to writing it. In *The Immortal Life*, Rebecca Skloot tells the story of a young black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951 and left behind an inexplicably immortal line of cells known as HeLa.

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