Malcolm Margolin

Malcolm Margolin
Margolin at his home in 2021
Margolin at his home in 2021
Born (1940-10-27) October 27, 1940 (age 83)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationWriter, editor, publisher
NationalityAmerican
Period1974–present
Notable awardsAmerican Book Award; Chairman's Commendation, National Endowment for the Humanities; The Hubert Howe Bancroft Award; Cultural Freedom Award, Lannan Foundation; Helen Crocker Russell Award for Community Leadership, San Francisco Foundation,
Website
californiaican.org

Malcolm Margolin (born October 27, 1940) is an author, publisher, and former executive director of Heyday Books, an independent nonprofit publisher and cultural institution in Berkeley, California.[1] From his founding of Heyday in 1974 until his retirement at the end of 2015, he oversaw the publication of several hundred books and the creation of two quarterly magazines: News from Native California, devoted to the history and ongoing cultural concerns of California Indians, and Bay Nature, devoted to the natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area. In the fall of 2017, he established a new enterprise, the California Institute for Community, Art, and Nature (California ICAN) to continue and expand upon the work that he began more than forty years ago.

Margolin is the author/editor of several books including The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area, named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the hundred most important books of the twentieth century by a western writer. His essays and articles have appeared in a number of periodicals including The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times.

  1. ^ Dinkelspiel, Frances; Rosos, Pete (January 11, 2012). "Snapshot: Malcolm Margolin, Founder, Heyday Books".