Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, in podcasts, and in books.
Today is a story of March 15th
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It is the 78th day of the year, leaving 287 days remaining in 2023.
She writes her stories about oddball topics in science, with surprising humor, diligent research and revealing interviews, and finding an inventive umbrella for a variety of topics about space, animals, or the human body.
For instance, her first book, Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, tells tales about how scientists use dead bodies to study live bodies. It includes stories about cadavers being used as crash-test dummies, the history of the study of medicine and its use of dead bodies, and how they are disposed of. She tells about grave-robbing, decomposition, and the ethics of it all.
She later turned to the study of live people who have been uniquely but severely during times of war, or during the practice for war. Grunt: The Curious Science of Life at War, tells how doctors and other researchers find ways to heal some of the most hideous of injuries, or improve lives for those who haves lost specific body parts or functions.
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void explores how people train to be astronauts or to fly into space.
After graduating from Connecticut's Wesleyan University, Roach worked as a freelance copy editor in San Francisco. She fell into science writing while working as a publicist for the San Francisco Zoo.
Her early articles appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday magazine, and she later would write for magazines across the country, including at The New York Times, GQ, Vogue, Discover, and Sports Illustrated for Women.
She lives and writes in California. Her latest book, published in 2021, is Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Laws.
OMG I LOVE MARY ROACH IVE READ ALMOST ALL HER BOOKS. She has so many interesting topics.
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