- Mary Roach is also the name of a past contestant on American Idol.
Mary Roach is the author of such books as Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003). 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 and GQ. She appeared on The Colbert Report, a satirical news program, in November 2005. The book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers also is shown briefly in the HBO television show Six Feet Under in season 4, episode 4, "Can I Come Up Now?".
References
- ^ Los Angeles Times, "Vigor Mortis," July 7, 2003
External links
- Never Another Job's interview with Mary Roach March 2007
- Review of SPOOK; interview with author, 10-05
- Stiff book page on the publisher's (W.W. Norton & Company) website
- Stiff book page on booknoise website
- Book Of The Dead - interview with Mary Roach, author of Stiff (Failure Magazine, July 2003)
