Her new book FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law, debuts in September 2021. Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF, SPOOK, BONK, GULP, GRUNT, and PACKING FOR MARS. She has been a finalist for the Royal Society's Winton Prize and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let's be honest, she was the sole entrant. She was a guest editor of the Best American Science and Nature Writing series and an Osher Fellow with the San Francisco Exploratorium and serves as an advisor for Orion and Undark magazines. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, among others. Mary's books have been published in 21 languages, and her second book, SPOOK, was a New York Times Notable Book.
Mary Roach is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. (Oct.Bio for Publicists | About Mary Short Bio of Mary Roach 12-city author tour 40-city radio satellite tour She is an original who can enliven any subject with wit, keen reporting and a sly intelligence. The text is littered with footnotes: tangential but delicious tidbits that Roach clearly couldn't bear to leave out. She goes to school to learn to be a medium, subjects her brain to electromagnetic waves to see if they induce the experience of seeing ghosts and joins a group trying to record sounds made by the spirits of the Donner party. She ranges into the oddest nooks and crannies of both science and belief (and scientists who believe), regaling the reader with tales of Duncan Macdougall, a respected surgeon who weighed consumptives at their moment of death to see if the escaping soul could be measured in ounces, and of female mediums who, during séances, extruded a substance called ectoplasm from their private parts (she even examines a piece of alleged ectoplasm archived at Cambridge University). Roach perfectly balances her skepticism and her boundless curiosity with a sincere desire to know. Yet she has done it again: after her study of what becomes of our mortal coil after death, she now presents an equally smart, quirky, hilarious look at whether there is a soul that survives our physical demise.
Roach made an exceptional debut two years ago with Stiff.
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