Notes of a Native Son is a nonfiction essay written by James Baldwin. The essay is about how Baldwin felt about his father and how he felt after his father died. Baldwin also realizes and accepts many things during this period. Racism is also one of Baldwin's main themes and uses it in many of his essays. Rebecca Skloot also wrote about a woman from this period. Skloot wrote an excerpt called "The Miracle Woman", the name of the woman in this article was Henrietta Lacks whose cells would live much longer than her. Henrietta was a strong-willed woman who had many children and knew when things were wrong. So when she felt something was wrong with her uterus, she went to the hospital and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. During Henrietta's operation, a doctor took a slap to her uterus and grew its cells in a lab that became one of the most important cures and tools in medicine..