![]() It was in this community that Roach would get the push she needed to break into book writing. On her days off from the SFZS, she wrote freelance articles for the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday Magazine.įrom 1996 to 2005 Roach was part of The Grotto, a San Francisco-based project and community of working writers and filmmakers. ![]() ![]() Her writing career began while working part-time at the San Francisco Zoological Society, producing press releases on topics such as elephant wart surgery. She worked as a columnist and also worked in public relations for a brief time. After college, Roach moved to San Francisco, California and spent a few years working as a freelance copy editor. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University in 1981. To date, she has published five books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) (published in some markets as Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), and Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013). Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science. ![]()
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