# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-pollan
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:37:51.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-pollan"
name: "Michael Pollan"
slug: "michael-pollan"
description: "Michael Kevin Pollan is an American journalist, specializing in food, who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where in 2020 he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, in which he leads the public-education program."
tagline: "American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism (b. 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Pollan_at_Yale_1_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump