Dates / Times:
Thursday, March 5, 2020
7:30pm
Location:
Silva Concert Hall @ Hult Center
Eugene, OR 97401
Details:
For the past thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the environment. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers; three of them (including his latest, How to Change Your Mind) were immediate #1 New York Times bestsellers. Previous books include Cooked (2013), Food Rules (2009), In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2008) and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006), which was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A revised, young readers’ edition of Omnivore’s Dilemma was published in 2015. Pollan's 2001 book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, also a New York Times bestseller was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon.com. Pollan is also the author of A Place of My Own (1997) and Second Nature (1991). An expanded edition of Food Rules, with original illustrations by Maira Kalman, was published in 2011. How to Change Your Mind was named one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2018.
A four-hour Netflix miniseries based on Cooked premiered in February 2016. PBS presented a two-hour special documentary based on The Botany of Desire in fall 2009 and a two-hour documentary based on In Defense of Food was broadcast nationally in December 2015. Pollan also appeared in the Oscar-nominated documentary Food Inc., which was partly based on The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987, Pollan’s writing has received numerous awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003; the John Burroughs prize (for the best natural history essay in 1997); the QPB New Vision Award (for his first book, Second Nature); the 2000 Reuters-I.U.C.N. Global Award for Environmental Journalism for his reporting on genetically modified crops; and the 2003 Humane Society of the United States’ Genesis Award for his writing on animal agriculture. In 2009 he was named one of the top 10 “New Thought Leaders” by Newsweek magazine. His essays have appeared in many anthologies, including Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. In addition to publishing regularly in the New York Times Magazine, his articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s (where he served for many years as executive editor), Mother Jones, Gourmet, Vogue, Travel + Leisure, Gardens Illustrated, and The Nation. In 2010 Michael Pollan was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Among his numerous awards and honors: The James Beard Foundation Leadership Award; the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; the Washburn Award for “outstanding contribution to public understanding of science” from the Boston Museum of Science; the Premio Nonino, an international literary award; the Washington University Humanities Medal, and the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace. He has also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gastronomic Science and in 2015-16 he was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
In 2003, Pollan was appointed the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. In 2017, he was appointed Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction at Harvard and the university’s first Lewis Chan Lecturer in the Arts. In addition to teaching, he lectures widely on food, agriculture, and health.
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. He lives in the Bay Area and Cambridge with his wife, the painter Judith Belzer.
VIP Meet & Greet Experience
Enjoy a Meet & Greet opportunity with Michael Pollan preceding the show in The Studio at the Hult Center. Photo opportunity is available but no book or memorabilia signing. Additional information and meet & greet time will be sent to ticket holders closer to showtime. Purchase tickets HERE!
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