Mary roach author biography websites

American author (born 1959)

Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor.^[1] She has published seven New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021).

Mary roach author biography websites

Early life and education

Mary Roach was born in Hanover, New Hampshire^[2] Her family moved to Etna, a village within the town of Hanover, and Roach attended Hanover High School and received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University in 1981.

Career

After college, Roach moved to San Francisco, California, and spent a few years working as a freelance copy editor. Her writing