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Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan is the author of three previous books: Second
Nature, A Place of My Own, and The Botany of Desire, which
received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best
nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of
the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon.
A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times
Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism
at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won
numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation
Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James
Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane
Association.