Date:
Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street
Rebecca Skloot, 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.