#  Michael Pollan 

Professor of the Practice of Non-Fiction, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 location\_on He/him/hisOffice: Lamont Library 411 (fall semester only)Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5 by appointment(On leave Fall 2023) 

 email [michael\_pollan@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:michael_pollan@fas.harvard.edu) 

 



 

Education: B.A., Bennington College (1977)  
M.A., Columbia University (1981)

Interests: Nature; the food system; altered states of consciousness

Selected Works:  
*The Botany of Desire* (2001); *The Omnivore’s Dilemma* (2006); *In Defense of Food* (2008); *Cooked* (2013); *How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence* (2018); *This is Your Mind on Plants* (2021).



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
     [Emeriti](/role/emeriti)