Rebecca Skloot is the author of
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. One of her six favorite books, as shared at
The Week magazine:
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
And the Band Played On is up there with Silent Spring as one of the most influential pieces of science writing. Published in 1987, it changed the way AIDS was understood and treated in the U.S., and did so by combining powerful investigative journalism with beautiful storytelling. The first piece I read by Shilts was a follow-up essay to the book. I finished it and said to myself, "I want to write like that guy."
Read about
the other books on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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