Michael Pollan is the author of five books:Second Nature,A Place of My Own, andThe Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as the best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the NATIONAL BESTSELLER—s,The Omnivore's Dilemma, andIn Defense of Food. A longtime contributing writer toThe New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.