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In Grunt, her new book, it’s military science she wants to explore.

She would go on to walk us through outer space ( Packing for Mars), digestion ( Gulp), ghosts ( Spook) and sex ( Bonk). Funny but not glib, nosy but not prurient, Roach is the consummate tour guide. “A goober with a flashlight,” she calls herself. You went along willingly nonetheless, because Roach is such a winsome presence. Nary a page went by without some blood and gore. It showed you decapitated heads kept in roasting pans, where young plastic surgeons learned to do nose jobs on the flesh of the dead. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, published in 2003, took you on a tour of a body farm at the University of Tennessee, where corpses lay rotting in the grass. When we first met her, she was knee-deep in a stack of dead people. More at Roach’s curiosity is notoriously infectious. She has been a guest editor for Best American Science and Nature Writing, a finalist for the Royal Society's Winton Prize, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' journalism award, in a category for which, let's be honest, she was the sole entrant. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, and The New York Times Magazine, among others, and her TED talk made the TED 20 Most Watched list. 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. Bio for Publicists | About Mary Short Bio of Mary Roach