Rebecca Skloot

Please join Rebecca Skloot on February 18th when she will help kick off the Pink Palace's special Genetics Lecture Series and DNA exhibit with a talk and reading from her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which is forthcoming from Crown/Random House. Skloot is an award winning freelance writer who contributes regularly to the New York Times Magazine, and others. She teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Memphis, where she directs the River City Writers Series. For more information about her book, visit www.rebeccaskloot.com and click on the "upcoming book" page.

What: “HeLa: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: How One Woman's Cells Changed Medicine and Launched the Field of Molecular Genetics”
When: February 18, 2008. Please join Rebecca for a reception at 6:30pm, followed by talk and reading at 7pm
Where: The Pink Palace, 3050 Central Avenue, Memphis.

For more information: wwww.memphismuseums.org and www.rebeccaskloot.com