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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot wins the Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Nov 10 2010
Ten years in the making, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - a beautiful but harrowing work of non-fiction by Rebecca Skloot - has won the second Wellcome Trust Book Prize worth 25,000 UK pounds (about US $40,000)
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