Mary Roach
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Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF, GRUNT, GULP, PACKING FOR MARS, and BONK. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, New Scientist, the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, and her 2009 TED talk made the organization's 2011 Twenty Most-Watched To Date list. She was the guest editor of the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing, a finalist for the 2014 Royal Society 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.