Mary Roach
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Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American writer who specializes in popular science and humor.
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2004) (published in some markets as Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife), Bonk: Discovering Humor in the Oddest Places, Gulp: The Curious Science of Humans (2005). In addition to her studies, Roach is known for her curiosity and humour.
"My Planet," her monthly humor column in various journals over the years, is one of Reader's Digest's many hum-laced articles.
Early life and education
Mary Roach was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her family and Roach transferred to Etna, a village within Hanover, New Hampshire. Roach and Manny attended Hanover High School and obtained 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 career began in the public affairs office of the San Francisco Zoological Society, producing press releases on topics such as wart surgery on elephants. On her days off from the SFZS, she wrote freelance articles for San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday magazine, Image.
She has written essays and feature articles for such publications as Vogue, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Discover Magazine, National Geographic, Outside Magazine, and Wired as well as columns for Salon.com, In Health ("Stitches"), Reader's Digest ("My Planet"), and Sports Illustrated for Women ("The Slightly Wider World of Sports"), and Inc.com.
From 1996 to 2005, Roach was part of "the Grotto", a San Francisco-based project and community of working writers and filmmakers. It was in this community that Roach got the push she needed to break into book writing. While being interviewed by Alex C. Telander of BookBanter, Roach answered the question of how she got started on her first book:
Although Roach writes primarily about science, she never intended to make it her career. Roach stated in an interview with TheVerge.com, when asked what exactly got her hooked on writing about science, "To be honest, it turned out that science stories were always, consistently, the most interesting stories I was assigned to cover. I didn't plan it like this, and I don't have a formal background in science, or any education in science journalism."
Roach has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including The Daily Show,The Colbert Report, Coast to Coast AM, NPR's "Fresh Air", and C-SPAN2 BookTV "In Depth." Her 2009 TED talk "Ten Things You Didn't Know About Orgasm", made the organization's list of its most popular talks of all time.
Roach reviews books for The New York Times, and was the guest editor of the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 edition. She also serves as a member of the Mars Institute's Advisory Board, as an ambassador for Mars One and an advisor for Orion magazine. She has been an Osher Fellow at the San Francisco Exploratorium and has served on the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary.