Food Rules

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan, who was born in 1955, grew up on Long Island, and was educated at Bennington College, Oxford University, and Columbia University, from which he received a Master’s in English.

For more than thirty years, he has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds.

He is a five-time 'New York Times' bestselling author, a journalist and an activist.

Pollan is currently the Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer and Professor of the Practice of NonFiction at Harvard University.

Since 2003, Pollan has held the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. In addition to teaching, he lectures widely on food, agriculture, health and the environment.

He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, the painter Judith Belzer.