Mary Roach is also the name of a past contestant on American Idol.

Mary Roach is the author of such books as Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) and 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.

Roach has written for Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Outside, Reader's Digest, GQ, and other periodicals.

She appeared on The Colbert Report, a satirical news program, in November 2005.

External links

• An Interview With Mary Roach California Literary Review
• Mary Roach interviewed by identitytheory.com
• 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)
• Hear Mary Roach read from her work at KQED's "The Writers' Block"