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Michael Pollan is the author of The Botany of Desire, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, and The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2006 by The New York Times and The Washington Post. It won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the James Beard Award for Best Food Writing and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Pollan is also the author of A Place of My Own and Second Nature.
A contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the James Beard Award for Best Magazine Series in 2003 and the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism. His articles have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing, Best American Essays and The Norton Book of Nature Writing. Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper's Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Michael Schwarz founded Kikim Media in 1996 after working for many years in public television, first as an independent producer of such landmark character-driven films as Abortion Clinic and Living Below the Line, then as part of the senior management team at KQED, the PBS station in San Francisco. Schwarz's work has been honored with some of the most prestigious awards in broadcasting – three national Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Journalism Award for Investigative Journalism, and numerous Ciné Golden Eagles and local Emmys.
Schwarz's recent programs for public television include My Father, My Brother, and Me (FRONTLINE); Hunting the Hidden Dimension (NOVA); Ending Aids: The Search for a Vaccine; Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet; The Next Big Thing?; Stopwatch; Naked to the Bone; and In Search of Law and Order. Kikim Media also produced and directed a series of short videos about social entrepreneurs for the Skoll Foundation and the special features for HBO's DVD release of Deadwood.
Edward Gray has produced, written and directed more than two dozen documentaries for television. Among his other collaborations with Michael Schwarz is the film Hunting the Hidden Dimension for NOVA. For PBS, Gray wrote and produced Security vs. Liberty: The Other War for the America at a Crossroads series and Through Many Lives: The Aging Brain for The Secret Life of the Brain. He made three films for the American Experience series, one of which was The Orphan Trains, which was awarded an Emmy® for Achievement in Writing. For ABC News, Gray was senior producer of Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination—Beyond Conspiracy. And for the Discovery Channel, Gray produced Searching for the Roots of 9/11, with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman. Gray's work has been recognized with three Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award.
The Botany of Desire is produced by Kikim Media and presented by KQED.
Major funding for this program was provided by the National Science Foundation, where discoveries begin.
Additional funding was provided by:
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
The Columbia Foundation, which supports the transition to sustainable communities.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0307967. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
