Michael Pollan, author portrait
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Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is the author of ten books, including This Is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. He is also the author of the audiobook Caffeine. A Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellow, Pollan has taught writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University. In 2010, Time named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.

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A World Appears
The Botany of Desire Young Readers Edition
This Is Your Mind on Plants
How to Change Your Mind
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Cooked
Food Rules
Food Rules
In Defense of Food
A Place of My Own
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Botany of Desire

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Books

A World Appears
The Botany of Desire Young Readers Edition
This Is Your Mind on Plants
How to Change Your Mind
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Cooked
Food Rules
Food Rules
In Defense of Food
A Place of My Own
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Botany of Desire

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Thu Mar 12 | 07:30 PM
Congregation Emanu El
1500 Sunset Blvd.
Houston, TX 77005
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Fri Mar 13
New Orleans, LA 
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Sat Mar 28
Zellerbach Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Google Map

Thu Apr 02 | 07:00 PM
Dominican University of California
CA 
Google Map

Mon Apr 13 | 05:30 PM
W New York - Union Square
201 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
Google Map

Wed Apr 15 | 07:30 PM
Francis W. Parker Auditorium
Chicago, IL 60614
Google Map

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