Description: The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
Brief description: Mary Roach is the author of eight best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in California.
Review Quotes: The general reader's ideal emissary to the arcana of serious science. . . . Roach's writing has what science has so far failed to find: a divine spark.--Malcolm Jones "Newsweek"