About Mary Roach
Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published eight 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), Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021), and Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (2025). == Early life, family and education == Mary Roach was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. She was raised in Etna, a village within the town of Hanover. Both her parents worked at Dartmouth College. Roach attended Hanover High School and was a straight-A student. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. == 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.
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