Mary Roach
Mary Roach is an American author specializing in popular science and humor, known for her New York Times bestsellers such as Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook, Bonk, Grunt, and Fuzz. Born in Etna, New Hampshire, she graduated from Wesleyan University in 1981, worked as a freelance copy editor and PR writer at the San Francisco Zoo, and transitioned to writing books in the late 1990s after freelancing for publications like National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Oakland, California.
Popular Science
Humor
Nonfiction
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void