Story Hour in the Library featuring Mary Roach

Reading - Literary | December 3 | 5-6 p.m. | Doe Library, 101 Doe--Morrison Library

Speaker/Performer: Mary Roach

Sponsor: Library, The

Mary Roach is author of New York Times bestsellers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Stiff has been translated into 17 languages, and Spook was a 2005 New York Times Notable Book. Bonk was chosen as a 2008 best book by the San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis-Post Dispatch, and Boston Globe. Mary has written for Outside, National Geographic, Wired, New Scientist, The New York Times Magazine, and NPR's "All Things Considered," among many others. She is the editor of the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing, a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, 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.

Event Contact: storyhour@berkeley.edu, 510-643-0397