Mary roach biography
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Mary Roach
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Bio for Publicists | About Mary
About Mary
I grew up in a small house in Etna, New Hampshire. My neighbors taught me how to drive a Skidoo and shoot a rifle, though I never made much use of these skills. I graduated from Wesleyan in and drove out to San Francisco with some friends. I spent a couple years working as a freelance copy editor before landing a half-time PR job at the SF Zoo. On the days when I wasn't there in my little cubicle in the trailer behind Gorilla World, I freelanced articles for the Sunday magazine of the local newspaper. One by one, my editors would move on to bigger publications and take me along with them. In the late s, magazines began to sputter out and travel budgets evaporated, and so I switched to books.
People call me a science writer, though I don't have a science degree and sometimes have to fake my way through interviews with experts I can't understand.
I have no hobbies. I mostly just work on my books and hang out with my family and friends. I enjoy bird-watching (though the hours don't agree with me), hiking, backpacking, overseas supermarkets, Scrabble, mangoes, and that late-night "Animal Planet" show about horrific animals such as the parasitic worm that attaches itself to fishes' eyeballs but makes up for it by leading the fish
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Mary Roach
American author (born )
Mary Roach (born March 20, ) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor.[1] She has published seven New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (), and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law ().
Early life and education
[edit]Mary Roach was born in Hanover, New Hampshire[2] Her family moved to Etna, a village within the town of Hanover, and Roach attended Hanover High School and received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University in
Career
[edit]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.[3]
She has written essays and feature articles fo