VANCOUVER — Rebecca Skloot, author of the bestselling book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” will be the featured speaker at the Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation’s fund-raising event on Nov. 8.
The Authors & Illustrators Dinner will be from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Hilton Vancouver Washington, 301 W. Sixth St.
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the story of a poor black woman whose cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951. Known to scientists as HeLa, those cells never died and became a ground-breaking tool in science and medicine.
They became instrumental in cancer research, developing the polio vaccine, AIDS research, gene mapping and virus research.
