Mary Roach

Mary Roach is an American author who writes popular science with a streak of humor. She is best known for Stiff, about the lives of human cadavers, and for Packing for Mars, which looks at the science of living in space. Her other books include Spook, on science and the afterlife, Bonk, on the science of sex, and Gulp, on the alimentary canal. She also wrote a monthly humor column, "My Planet", for Reader's Digest.