Rebecca Skloot

The story of Henrietta Lacks, what Henrietta Lacks's life was like, the era Henrietta Lackslived in, the struggles of Henrietta Lacks's surviving children and the scientific legacy Henrietta Lacksunknowingly left behind have been painstakingly researched by science writer Rebecca Skloot in a new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, released earlier this month by Crown.