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Annotated Bibliography

[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-2-2010/mary-roach''"Mary Roach - The Daily Show." Interview by Jonathan S. Leibowitz. The Daily Show. MTV. COM, New York, New York, 1 Apr. 2013. Television.]

[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ca.21056/full'' Roach, Mary. "The C Word: Dead Man Driving." Clinical Anatomy (2010): N/a. Print.]

[http://www.maryroach.net/maryroach.html''Roach, Mary. "Mary Roach's Biography." Red Room. Red Room Omnimedia Corporation, n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2013.]

[http://therumpus.net/2009/02/rumpus-original-the-shorty-qa-with-mary-roach''"THE SHORTY Q&A WITH MARY ROACH." Interview by Ainsley Drew. The Rumpus. The Rumpus, 11 Feb. 2009. Web. 27 Oct. 2013.]

[http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/17/4230242/science-writer-mary-roach-everything-i-learn-is-pretty-shocking-and-weird'' "Science Writer Mary Roach: ‘everything I Learn Is Pretty Shocking and Weird’." Interview by Katie Drummond. The Verge. VOX Media, 17 Apr. 2013. Web. 27 Oct. 2013.]

[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/181165/november-09-2005/mary-roach''"Mary Roach." Interview by Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report. Comedy Central. COM, New York, New York, 09 Nov. 2005. Television.]

Revision

Roach began her long career in writing soon after she graduated from [[Wesleyan University] in the summer of 1981. Once she graduated she drove off to California with a few friends and quickly became free lance copy editor. Roach continued to write articles for her local newspaper after he landed a half-time PR job at the [[San Francisco Zoo]]. Eventually, the editors she wrote for started to become a part of bigger projects (as was Roach) and they took Roach along with them.

At this time she wrote a humorous, almost satirical piece about the IRS which led to write a piece for The New York Times, New Scientist, Vogue, GQ, National Geographic, Discover Magazine, Wired and Outside Magazine. Roach was even a National Magazine Award finalist for one of her articles. And by 1996 she had won an Engineering Journalism Award for her research on bamboo homes that could withstand earthquakes. Although Mary Roach has moved on to write books she still continues to write articles every now and then. Her most recent one was for Clinical Anatomy, titled The C Word: Dead Man Driving. The article asks why cadavers are considered to be dishonored if they are being used to test explosives or crash testing. Roach has also had monthly columns in both Readers Digest and Sports Illustrated.

Although Mary Roach writes a whole lot about science, she never intended to make it her career. Roach stated in an interview with TheVerge.com when asked what exactly got her hooked on writing about science “To be honest, it turned out that science stories were always, consistently the most interesting stories I was assigned to cover. I didn’t plan it like this, and I don’t have a formal background in science, or any education in science journalism. Actually I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology.” This interesting fact about Roach brought on quite a few questions. So TV and radio shows began to ask her to appear as guests so they can get into the mind of Mary Roach. She has been a guest on things like Coast to Coast AM, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and so on.