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Author! Author! Mary Roach

Mary Roach Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 1/27/2018
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 9:00 PM
Description:
 Author! Author! is the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s visiting author literary series. Author! Author! brings our country’s top authors to Bend for a lively discussion of the author’s current works, literature and writing process. Tickets available available for purchase at www.dplfoundation.org.

Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; and BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.

Her most recent book, GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War, is out in June 2016.

Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, Discover, New Scientist, the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, among others. She serves as a member of the Mars Institute's Advisory Board and the Usage Panel of American Heritage Dictionary. 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.

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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: Bend High School
Contact: Suzy Olsen
Contact Number: 541-312-1027
Presenter: Mary Roach
Link: Mary Roach at DPL