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Michael Pollan

American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism (b. 1955)

  • Fame56.6
  • Momentum2.2
  • Wikipedia22.8K
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Born 1955 · age 71United States
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    19 languages
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  • Age
    71
    Born 1955
  • Known for
    Food, Inc.
    2008
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Updated 2026-07-17

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.

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56.6
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Momentum2.2
Historical20.6
Now attention12.3
Source confidence85.0
Completeness90.0
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