Mary Roach
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| Mary Roach | |
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 Mary Roach speaking at TED in 2009. Photograph by Bill Holsinger-Robinson. |
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| Born | Etna, New Hampshire |
| Occupation | Author (nonfiction) |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Science |
| Subjects | Science |
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- Mary Roach is also the name of a past contestant on American Idol.
Mary Roach is an American science writer. She has published three books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008). Raised in Etna, New Hampshire, she holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University and currently resides in San Francisco, California.
She began her writing career at the San Francisco Zoological Society, producing press releases on such topics as elephant wart surgery.[1] In 1986, she sold a humor piece about the IRS to the San Francisco Chronicle. That led to a spate of humorous first-person essays for such publications as Sports Illustrated, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Outside, Reader's Digest (for whom she wrote a monthly humor column) and GQ.
She appeared on The Colbert Report, a satirical news program, in November 2005.
[edit] References
- ^ Los Angeles Times, "Vigor Mortis," July 7, 2003
[edit] External links
- Mary Roach's website
- BookBanter Episode 7 featuring recent interview with Mary Roach from April 23rd, 2009
- Video: Mary Roach discusses Bonk at BODIES...The Exhibition in New York City on 4/6/2009 (via fora.tv)
- Video: Mary Roach at the Los Angeles Public Library (Fora.tv)
- Video: Mary Roach on SlateV.com
- Video: Mary Roach interview on The Colbert Report
- New York Times review of Spook by Janet Maslin
- New York Times review of Bonk by Pamela Paul
- HoboTrashcan's Getting to Know ... Mary Roach an in-depth feature article on Roach and Bonk
- Review of Spook; interview with author, 10-05
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