Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan is the author of ten books, including This Is Your Mind on PlantsHow to Change Your MindCookedFood Rules, In Defense of FoodThe 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.