Mary Roach


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

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

The book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers also is shown briefly in the HBO television show Six Feet Under in season 4, episode 4, "Can I Come Up Now?".