Mary Roach

Mary Roach is one of my favorite kinds of writer: the one who runs toward the subjects everyone else flinches from. Cadavers, the afterlife, sex, life in space, the digestive tract, she treats them all with relentless curiosity and a wicked sense of humor. With multiple New York Times bestsellers, she has proven that science writing need not be solemn to be serious. What I love is her honesty about her own morbid fascination; she invites readers to be as nosy as she is. She turns squeamishness into wonder, and that, to me, is a genuinely rare gift.

Name (English)

Mary Roach

Name (Japanese)

メアリー・ローチ

Reading

めありー・ろーち

Born

March 20, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

Origin

Etna, New Hampshire, United States

Occupation

medical writer / writer / journalist / magazine writer

High school

Hanover High School

University

Wesleyan University

• Official sitehttps://www.maryroach.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/mary_roach
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Roach
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444136

Tags

• New Hampshire
• medical writer
• writer
• journalist

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.