Mary Roach

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Mary Roach is an American author of popular science and humor books. She has published eight New York Times bestsellers, including Stiff, Spook, Bonk, Gulp, Grunt, Packing for Mars, and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law. Her work explores offbeat scientific subjects, from the science of human cadavers to the quest to re-create human anatomy. Her website is maryroach.net, and she writes on X as @mary_roach.