# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-roach
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:43:23.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-roach"
name: "Mary Roach"
slug: "mary-roach"
description: "Mary Roach is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published eight New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021), and Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (2025)."
tagline: "American science writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2025_Mary_Roach_at_the_Library_of_Congress_on_25_September_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.089226388229711
  historical:           18.17741333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "mary_roach"
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    url:       "http://www.maryroach.net/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Roach"
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    title: "మేరీ రోచ్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "瑪莉·羅曲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump