Name Marion Roach | Role Fiction writer | |
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Books Roots of desire, Dead Reckoning, Another Name for Madness | ||
Writing memoir with marion roach smith
Marion Roach is a contemporary non-fiction writer whose work spans many fields of research.
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Her first book, Another Name for Madness, is a memoir that describes with her mother's experience with Alzheimer's and the family problems that arose because of it. She is also the coauthor of Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers with Michael Baden, MD as well as "The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning, and Sexual Power of Red Hair (2005), a non-fiction piece about the history and oddities of red heads and their reactions from society.
Her most recent book, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, in 2011, is, in her words, "an impertinent, utterly useful book on how to write memoir, and see your life for what it really is."
Along with her books, Roach's writing has also been published in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Discover, Prevention, and Newsday. She also works as a professor of a memoir course at the Arts Center of the Capital Region, New York; and works as a commentator on National Public Radio on the show "All Things Considered." She previously had a spot on Martha Stewart Living Radio Sirius 112 called "The Naturalist's Datebook". This daily radio show included facts, websites, books, poems and more concerning nature and naturalists. She started each piece with how many days of the year had elapsed since New Years, and quotes how many days since the new moon. Ms. Roach closed each Datebook with the phrase "And that's it for the Naturalist's Datebook... And Remember: Look around, write it down, and keep your eye on nature."
She will début her new children's show this September on MSL Radio.
Marion Roach lives in upstate New York with her husband, Albany Times Union Editor Rex Smith, and daughter.