Based on a guest question by Vaibhav Bajpai | contribute questions Rebecca Skloot is a freelance science writer and New York Times bestselling author. However, she is also a proof-reader. In March 2014, she had tweeted about a mistake in a New York Times article, published on 20th January 1853, and related to a violinist's kidnapping from Washington county. The paper promptly issued a correction giving due credit to Rebecca.
How was the mistake pointed out by Rebecca connected to a decade-plus confinement?
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The article was about the kidnapping of Solomon Northup, who was wrongly enslaved for 12 years.The NY Times article incorrectly referred to him as "Northrop," and the headline also identified him as "Northrup." Rebecca tweeted this mistake and NY Times promptly issued
a correction. He is also the subject of the movie "12 Years a Slave", which won the Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards.