
Michael Pollan
Northern California Book Awards
10 JUNE 2012 — sunday
31st Annual Northern California Book Awards, Northern California authors are honored in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, and Children's Literature, Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to journalist and author Michael Pollan, Food Rules, The Omnivore's Dilemma, NCBR Recognition Award will be presented to Everything is its own reward, An All Over Coffee Collection, by Paul Madonna, awards are presented by Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, San Francisco Public Library and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, Red Room (redroom.com), PEN West, and Mechanics' Institute, public reception with book signing follows, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin, enter at Grove, SF, free, 1:00 (Poetry Flash: 510/525-5476, poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2012)