Michael Pollan, author portrait
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Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is the author of nine 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: How Coffee and Tea Made the Modern World. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan teaches writing at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. 

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The Botany of Desire Young Readers Edition
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Food Rules
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Botany of Desire

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The Botany of Desire Young Readers Edition
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Food Rules
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Botany of Desire

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