Mary Roach
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| Mary Roach | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author (nonfiction) |
| Nationality | American |
| Subjects | Science |
Mary Roach is also the name of a past contestant on American Idol.
Mary Roach is the author of such books as 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.
The book Stiff also is shown briefly in the HBO television show Six Feet Under in season 4, episode 4, "Can I Come Up Now?".
In a 2008 interview, actress Mena Suvari spoke highly of the book Stiff [2].
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- Mary Roach's website
- Video: Mary Roach at the Los Angeles Public Library (Fora.tv)
- Video: Mary Roach on SlateV.com
- HoboTrashcan's Getting to Know ... Mary Roach an in-depth feature article on Roach and BONK
- Interview between Mary Roach and Kelly Hewittin which the author discusses her wariness in contacting researchers, feared backlash from the release of Stiff, and mentions her newest work, Bonk.
- Never Another Job's interview with Mary Roach March 2007
- STIFF book review on Letters On Pages
- Review of SPOOK; interview with author, 10-05
- Book Of The Dead - interview with Mary Roach, author of Stiff (Failure Magazine, July 2003)
- New York Times review of BONK by Janet Maslin
- New York Times review of BONK by Pamela Paul
- FearNet interview with Mena Suvari
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