Michael Pollan is the author of 
In Defense
of Food: An Eater's Manifesto , winner of the James Beard
Award, and The
Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006),
which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New
York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book
Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for
best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award. H
In Defense
of Food: An Eater's Manifesto , winner of the James Beard
Award, and The
Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006),
which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New
York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book
Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for
best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award. His new book Food
Rules will be available in January. A young readers version The
Omnivore's Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You Eat is now
available. Pollan is also the author of The
Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
(2001); A
Place of My Own (1997);
and Second
Nature (1991). In 2009 Pollan appeared in the
documentary Food, Inc.
and the PBS documentary The
Botany of Desire.
A contributing writer to the New
York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of
numerous journalistic awards,
including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in
2003 and
the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental
Journalism.
Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper’s
Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science
and Environmental
Journalism at UC
Berkeley. His articles have been anthologized in Best
American Science Writing (2004); Best American
Essays (1990 and 2003)
and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. Newsweek
named Pollan one of the top
ten new thought leaders of the decade.
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