THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS Characters By Chapter	EDITOR: Christina Hale

CH FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION Pro Henrietta Lacks Had cell. Aka: Loretta Pleasant, Helen Lane, Helen Larson.       HeLa cell - Henrietta's cell.   Donald Defler Rebecca's college professor.   David Lacks Henrietta's husband and cousin. Aka: Day.   Deborah Lacks Henrietta's daughter. Aka: Dale.       Deborah's Voice   John Hopkins Owner of the hospital who took Henrietta's cell.   Margaret   Henrietta's cousin.   Sadie   Henrietta's cousin.   Joe Lacks Henrietta's child. Aka: Crazy Joe, Zakariyya B. Abdul Rahman.   Joseph Lacks Henrietta's fourth child.   Howard Jones Henrietta's physician.       Clover   Eliza P. Lacks Henrietta's mother.   Johnny Pleasant Henrietta's father.   Tommy Lacks Henrietta's grandfather.   Munchie   A midwife. Henrietta's cousin.   Johnny Coleman David's father.   Cliff Garrett Fred's brother.   Fred Garrett Henrietta and David's cousin.   Mrs. Coleman Johnny's wife.   Chloe Lacks Henrietta's grandmother.   Cadillac   Tommy's hound.   Dan   Tommy's hound.   Charlie Horse Tommy's tall bay.   Joe Grinnan Henrietta and Tommy's cousin. Henrietta's lover.   Lawrence Lacks Henrietta and David's first child.   Lucile Elsie Pleasant Henrietta's sister.   Gladys Lacks Henrietta's sister.       Diagnosis and Treatment   Richard W. Telinde Joe's boss. A top cervical cancer expert. Aka: Uncle Dick.   George Gey Head tissue culture research at Hopkins, took Henrietta's cell.   Margaret Gey George Gey's wife.   Howard Kelly A surgeon who visited the Curies.   Marie Curie The woman who discovered Radium. Pierre's wife.   Pierre Curie The man who discovered Radium. Marie's wife.   Dr. Lawrence Wharton Jr. Henrietta's surgeon.       The Birth of Hela   Mary Kubicek George Gey's assistant.   Minnie   Margaret's assistant.   Warren Lewis George Gey's mentor.       Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside   Galen   Henrietta's cousin.   Ethel   Galen's wife.   David Lacks Jr. Henrietta and David's son. Aka: Sonny.   Elsie Lacks Henrietta and David's oldest daughter.   Peter   Henrietta's cousin.       Lady's On The Phone   Roland Patillo George Gey's student. Professor of gynecology at Morehouse.   Rebecca Skloot Author and Narrator.   Alexis Carrel A French surgeon at Rockefeller Institute.       A Miserable Specimen   Laure Aurelian George Gey's colleague at Hopkins. A microbiologist.       Turner Station   Courtney Speed Ceated a building devoted to Henrietta.   Keith Speed Courtney's son.   Mike Speed Courtney's son.   Cyrus Speed Courtney's son.   Tyrone Speed Courtney's son.   Reverend Jackson Rebecca's friend.       The Other Side of Tracks   Hector Henry Henrietta's first cousin. Aka: Cootie.       The Devil of Pain Itself   Emmett Lacks Henrietta's cousin.       The Storm   Dr. Wilbur A doctor who'd done the autopsy of the body of Henrietta.       The HeLa Factory   Jonas Salk A scientist who developed the world's polio vaccine.       NFIP - The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.   William Scherer George Gey's colleague from NFIP.       Tuskeger Institute - Prestigious black university.   Charles Bynum The director of "Negro Activities".       NIH - National Institutes of Health.   Samuel Reader The owner of mircobiological associates.   Monroe Vincent Samuel's business partner.   Leonard Hayflick The world's famous cell culturist.   Charles Pomerat George Gey's long-time friend.       Helen Lane   Jerome Sylverston William's adviser.   Roland Berg A press officer at NFIP.   Bill Davidson A reporter from Collier Magazine.   Joseph Kelly The head of public relations at Hopkins.       Too Young to Remember   Bobbette Cooper Lawrence's girlfriend.   Alfred Carter Deborah's husband. Aka: Cheetah.       Spending Eternity In The Same Place   Mourning   Henrietta's great, great grandmother.   John S. Pleasant A man who inherited Mourning and George.   George   Mourning's husband.   Edmund   Henrietta's paternal great-grandfather.   Henrietta Pleasant The great aunt of Henrietta Lacks.   Albert Lacks Henrietta's maternal great-grandfather.   Winston Lacks Albert's brother.   Benjamin Lacks Albert's brother.   Roseland   A woman who runs the Rosie's.   Bobcat   A white man who runs a minimart in Clover.   Carlton Lacks The oldest white lackses in Clover.   Ruby Lacks Carlton's wife and cousin.   Robin Lacks Winston, Benjamin, and Albert's father.   Lilian Lacks Henrietta's youngest sister.   Gary Lacks Glady's son.       Illegal, Immoral and Deplorable   Chester Southam A well respected cancer researcher and chief of virology.   Alice Moore Chester's colleague.   Emanuel Mandel Director of medicine at Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital.   William Hyman A lawyer.   Bertil Bjorklund A cancer specialist who was penalized by injecting HeLa cell.   Louis Lefkowitz The New York State Attorney.   Henry Beecher A Harvard anesthesiologist.       Strangest Hybrid   George Hyatt A navy doctor working with National Cancer Institute.   Lewis Coriell A renowned cell culturist.   Robert Stevenson A scientist. The President of ATCC.   Wilton Earle The scientist who originally grew the L-Cell.       L-Cell - The original immortal mouse cell line. Cell number one.   Henry Harris A scientist who created the first human-animal hybrid cell.   John Watkins Henry's colleague.       The Most Critical Time On This Earth Now   Alfred Carter Jr. Deborah's son.   Ivy   Deborah's neighbor that Joe killed.   June   Crazy Joe's friend.       The HeLa Bomb   Stanley Gartler A geneticist.   T.C Hsu The chair of Garler's conference session. Geneticist.       Night Doctors   President Clinton The current U.S. President.       The Fame She So Richly Deserves   George Gey Jr. George's son.   Victor McKusick A leading geneticist. George Gey's colleague.   Richard Nixon The current U.S. President.   Walter Nelson-Rees The director of cell culture in Naval Laboratory.   J. Douglas A biologist at Brunel University.       It's Alive   Gardenia   Bobbette's friend.       HEW - The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.   Latonya Carter Deborah's daughter.   Susan Hsu The director of medical genetics at American Red Cross.       Least They Can Do   Michael Rogers A young reporter from Rolling Stone. Aka: Mike.       HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.       Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen   David Golde A prominent cancer researcher at UCLA.   Ananda M. Chakrabrty A scientist working at General Electric.   Ted Slavin A man who was born a hemophiliac in 1950.   Baruch Blumberg A Nobel-Prize winning virologist.   Joseph Warner The famous judge at The People's T.V. show.       Breach of Privacy   James Pullum A mechanic. Deborah's husband.       The Secret of Immortality   Harrald Zur Hausen A german virologist who discovered human pappiloma virus.   Richard Axel A molecular biologist.   Jeremy Rifkin An author and activist.   Leigh Van Valen An evolutionary biologist at University of Chicago.       After London   Adam Curtis A BBC producer in London.   Barbara Wyche A sociologist at Morga State University.   Terry Sharrer A curator at Smithsonian National Museum of American History.   Robert Erhlich Jr. A U.S. state house of representative.   Ross Jones Hopkins's assistant.   Lord Keenan K. Cofield Deborah's relative.   Richard Kidwell One of Hopkins's attorneys.   Grover Hutchins The director of autopsy service.   Johnnie Cochran O.J. Simpson's lawyer.   JoAnn Rodgers John Hopkins's spokeperson.       A Vintage Henriettas   Christoph Lengauer A young Hopkins's cancer researcher.       Zakariyya   Davon Carter Deborah's grandson.   Alfred Carter Deborah's grandson.       HeLa Goddess of Death   Franklin Salisbury Jr. President of National Foundation for Cancer Research.       The Hospital For The Negro Insane   Paul Lurz The hospital's director of performance and improvement.       Nothing To Be Scared About   JaBrea   Sonny's granddaughter.