Mary Roach's Timeline
- Born in Hanover, New Hampshire
- Graduated from Wesleyan University in
1981
- Spent a few years working as a
freelance copy editor before landing a half-time job in the PR office at the
San Francisco Zoo.
- Pre - Spook and Stiff
era - wrote columns, essays,
and feature articles for Outside, Wired, GQ ,
Salon.com, and The
New York Times Magazine.
- 1995 -
"How to Win at Germ Warfare"
- 1996 - article on earthquake-proof
bamboo houses published.
- 2005 - "My Planet"
- 2005 - "The Slightly Wider World of
Sports"
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of
Human Cadavers was a New York Times
Bestseller, a 2003 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and one of
Entertainment Weekly 's Best Books of 2003.
- Stiff
has been translated into 16 languages, including Hungarian (Hullamerev)
and Lithuanian (Negyveilai).
- Spook is the newest
arrival to the Roach collection.
The author, with monkey.
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