this is and as triathletes is that i have tissues anyway he"sp from now at this anonymous cells are going to tell you about a person, no one can imagine that. but also just beyond that, there's a sticker issue of just people want to know what's being done with their dna and tissue

there have been lawsuits over this and i talked to a lot of people involved in across-the-board this is the same thing, which is what the lacks family says as well. if they asked us, we would've said yes. don't want to inhibit science. people understand this is important research. is that after the fact that this has been done with the tissues they don't have know about, they're being commercialized,, that's that they get angry and start yelling like something that is going on. the macarthur other henrietta lacks out there? >> in a lot of ways there's billions of them, we just don't know what their names are, what their stories are. one of the interesting things that happened since the book came out as i've been getting e-mails from scientists. the scientists response to the hela story is really incredible. there is so many scientists who work with herself everyday and have their whole careers and never saw to ask where they came from or they learned that they came from or donated from a woman. and one of the things that's been happening as i've been

getting these e-mails from scientists and thank you for the story, if you support that with the from and i worked a lot with line. are you aware that came from a advising getting all these e-mails is this thing please tell me about this outline them what the story is. if you go to the solving of the week and i felt you can scroll through the catalog will say things like-year-old african-american male disorders such as or 12-year-old caucasian female side of lymphoma. the sometimes you get these little snippets of their stories, but nothing beyond that. and a lot of scientists are sorted out they to that person get patient? probably not. and what do we know about them. so the story at henrietta lacks is this window into these other syllables. >> you see a broader book on the horizon? >> no. no, i don't think you could.

i mean, the thing that's different about henrietta story bothers other people is that her name was released. so we know who she is, but yeah, privacy concerns would keep you from other releasing the names of any of those other cell lines or anything like that. so yeah, they're sort of know -- they're pretty of my friends is a great night of spend the rest of your life writing books about each of the cell lines. i said no, i'm not. and really the stories would not be the same because part of what they do henrietta lacks story so amazing and sort of impactful is what happened after the cells were taken. it's really in a lot of ways about the family and the aftermath of the cells. which did happen to anyone that is nobody else got a phone call thing your mother's house are still led 25 years after she died and went to research on you. so a lot of the stories would have been after. >> this book is really taken off. when the booktv producer bob mentor editorial meeting to

discuss it, the whole group said what is the story? we have to know the story. >> which is the same reaction i had when i first heard it. and this is one of things people often say. aren't you shocked that people are responding to the book the way they are and i just blown away to see this book, a science book of cells in "the new york times" bestseller list? it's like writers really are supposed to say they imagine something like this could happen, but it doesn't surprise me because i had the exact same reaction among us is having. it's a basic facts of the stories are so incredible. you hear them and just go with? i have to know what happened in to tell people about that. and a what i said when i heard it. circulate to what taken off is very much about the story and the fact that the furthest thing because it's the facts of the stories people are responding

to. >> where do you live, what's your day job in word you to grow up? >> i live in memphis, tennessee. having teaching at the university and the faculty of the creative writing program. i grew up in portland, oregon and have lived in lots of places. i was to undergraduate school in fort collins, colorado democrats going to birkenau lived in new york are at a moved around a lot. >> why biology class what interested you about biology class >> is actually free to the vast countryside is one of those kids was completely obsessed with the most time i was five i was going to be a veterinarian. so i was attack about that is as good as he you do for you if you are is that he is a good or if

you have is that it is as good as he is to live in a universe with her. a lot of that has to do is because henrietta has washington

journal. and at eight thanks 30 during the program, meet the students who made them and for a preview of all of the winners, visit studentcam.org. jon jeter and robert pierre are the co-authors of "a day late and a dollar short" high hopes and deferred dreams and obama as opposed racial america. facebook recently in washington for a little more than an hour. >> okay. my name is terry michael from the center of politics and journalism which is a very pleased to co-sponsor this event tonight. i have the honor of having brought robert pierre to washington under the politics and journalism semester program he was in the inaugural class and fall of 1989. we are now in the 22nd year with about 500