For hosts and editors
Partners & Press
Most writing about mushroom lore today is secondhand. His isn’t — and the fieldwork below has the paper trail to prove it.
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Field practice is on Standards.
Common questions are under Questions.
Institutions, venues, tour operators
Lectures and presentations
His lecture record includes the Explorers Club, University of Alaska, Alaska Pacific University, Cornell, Harvard, Center for Northern Studies, BBC and CBC Radio, Discovery Channel, NPR, Icelandic Radio, Boston University, New Brunswick Museum, Appalachian Mountain Club, and over 100 other venues.
Talks & Walks
Tour operators, expedition cruises
Lectures aboard expedition cruises
He has lectured on expedition cruises in the Canadian Arctic, Svalbard, Greenland, and Siberia.
Talks & Walks
Libraries, bookstores, societies
Readings and signings
Readings and signings, including a reading and signing at Belmont Public Library in July 2026.
The Boston Globe, 16 July 2026
Libraries, societies, parks
Public fungal walks
Public fungal walks, including walks at Fresh Pond Reservation.
GBH News, 15 January 2026
Tourism departments, regions
Regional fungal survey
In 2007 a Makivik Corporation grant funded his survey of the fungi around Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. The report identified harvestable edible species.
Kuujjuaq Fungi: Twenty Species
Editors, publishers
Articles and essays
Bylines include Smithsonian, National Geographic Adventure, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Islands.
MacDowell
Share kit
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Lawrence Millman is an author, ethnographer, and mycologist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has written more than twenty books and made more than forty trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic. His books include Fungipedia and A Luddite Lexicon. He has recorded 399 fungal species at Fresh Pond since 2005.
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Lawrence Millman is an author, ethnographer, and mycologist who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has written more than twenty books and made more than forty trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic. Fungipedia was published by Princeton University Press on 29 October 2019. A Luddite Lexicon was published in July 2026. He has recorded 399 fungal species at Fresh Pond since 2005 and donates many specimens to Harvard’s Farlow Herbarium. His walks are about ecology. He has taught at the University of Iceland, the University of New Hampshire, and Tufts University. Mail goes to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Write to L.Millman@comcast.net.
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Lawrence Millman is an author, ethnographer, and mycologist who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has written more than twenty books and made more than forty trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic. He has taught at the University of Iceland, the University of New Hampshire, and Tufts University. Fungipedia was published by Princeton University Press on 29 October 2019, with illustrations by Amy Jean Porter. A Luddite Lexicon was published in July 2026. Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau was published by Coyote Arts in 2024. At the End of the World was published in January 2017 by Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press. Since 2005 he has recorded 399 fungal species at Fresh Pond Reservation. He donates many specimens to Harvard’s Farlow Herbarium. Earlier published counts were 321 in 2019 and 367 in October 2023. His walks are about ecology. He has lectured for universities, museums, and on expedition cruises in the Canadian Arctic, Svalbard, Greenland, and Siberia. Bylines include Smithsonian, National Geographic Adventure, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Islands. Inonotus millmanii, a polypore he collected in Puerto Rico, was named in his honor by Leif Ryvarden. Public mail goes to P.O. Box 381582, Cambridge, MA 02238.
Photographs
- Circular traveler emblem, used as the site logo and favicon.
- Lawrence Millman on a gravel beach in Siberia. Ask before you publish it.
- Lawrence Millman in a forest, holding a bolete. Ask before you publish it.
One line: Author, ethnographer, and mycologist.
