Malcolm Margolin is the publisher emeritus of Heyday, an independent nonprofit publisher and unique cultural institution, which he founded in 1974. Margolin is author 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. He has received dozens of prestigious awards among which are the Chairman's Commendation from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fred Cody Award Lifetime Achievement from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, the Helen Crocker Russell Award for Community Leadership from the San Francisco Foundation, the Carey McWilliams Award for Lifetime Achievement from the California Studies Association, an Oscar Lewis Award for Western History from the Book Club of California, a Hubert Bancroft Award from Friends of the Bancroft Library, a Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He helped found the Bay Nature Institute and the Alliance for California Traditional Artists.
Malcolm Margolin is an author, publisher and founder and executive director of the California Institute for Community Arts,and Nature. Throughout his prolific career, Margolin wrote several books on California natural history, cultural history and Indian life, such as The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area; founded the independent nonprofit publisher Heyday; oversaw the creation of the magazines News from Native California and Bay Nature; and was deeply involved in a variety of cultural institutions like the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, the Inlandia Institute, the California Baksetweavers Association and Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. He will be awarded the PubWest's 2020 Jack D.Rittenhouse Award during the PubWest 2020 conference in February 2020. His next book, Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderments in Native California, will be published by Heyday in 2021.
