Mary Roach
Autor de Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Sobre El Autor
Mary Roach was born and raised in Etna, New Hampshire. She has a BA degree in psychology from Wesleyan University. She spent a few years as a free-lance copy editor before she landed a job at the San Francisco Zoological Society turning out press releases. She then moved on to write humor pieces mostrar más for such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and Sports Illustrated. Her article "How to Win at Germ Warfare" was a National Magazine Award Finalist, in 1995. In 1996, her article on earthquake-proof bamboo houses took the Engineering Journalism Award. She published several books such as Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) and Packing for Mars (2010). Mary's title Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: At TED conference 2009-02-06. Photo by Bill Holsinger-Robinson.
Obras de Mary Roach
Grunt and Gulp Mary Roach Collection 2 Books Bundle - The Curious Science of Humans at War, Travels Around the Gut (2016) 3 copias
Bamboo Solution 1 copia
New World Pompeii 1 copia
1996 Sex: No Shortage Yet 1 copia
The Prince and the Pauper 1 copia
Secrets of the Shamans 1 copia
Two-Minute Revelation 1 copia
Hollywood Hills 1 copia
Cleaning Up Their Act 1 copia
Meteorite Hunters 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959-03-20
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Etna, New Hampshire, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Alameda, California, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Educación
- Wesleyan University (BA ∙ psychology ∙ 1981)
Hanover High School - Ocupaciones
- columnist
copywriter
non-fiction writer - Relaciones
- Rachles, Ed (husband)
- Organizaciones
- Salon.com
Reader's Digest - Agente
- Erin Lovett (publicist)
Jay Mandel (agent) - Biografía breve
- Mary Roach grew up in a small house in Etna, New Hampshire. She graduated from Wesleyan in 1981, and then moved out to San Francisco s. She spent a few years working as a freelance copy editor before landing a half-time PR job at the SF Zoo. During that time she wrote freelance articles for the local newspaper's Sunday magazine.
Though she mostly focuses on writing books, she writes the occasional magazine piece. These have run in Outside, National Geographic, New Scientist, Wired, and The New York Times Magazine, as well as many others. A 1995 article of herse called "How to Win at Germ Warfare" was a National Magazine Award Finalist, and in 1996, her article on earthquake-proof bamboo houses took the Engineering Journalism Award in the general interest magazine category. Mary Roach also reviews books for The New York Times.
Her first book, Stiff, was an offshoot of a column she wrote for Salon.com. Her other books include Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.
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