“This is my home office in Berkeley, California, taken today. If you could see through the window you’d see the Golden Gate Bridge.”
MICHAEL POLLAN
MICHAEL POLLAN is a journalist, professor, and author whose research has focused on the sociocultural intersection of humans, food, and the natural world: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan’s books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers, include This Is Your Mind on Plants (2021), Cooked (2013), In Defense of Food (2008), and The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006). Pollan lives in the Bay Area with his wife, the painter Judith Belzer, and is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and, concurrently, a professor of the Practice Non-Fiction at Harvard University.