Malcolm Margolin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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author, publisher, and the founder and executive director of Heyday Books
Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1940
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Malcolm Margolin
- Malcolm Margolin is an author, publisher, and former executive director of Heyday Books, an independent nonprofit publisher and cultural institution in Berkeley, California.
- 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. He has received many honors including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, a Community Leadership Award from the San Francisco Foundation, a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and a Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation.
- In 2012 he received the chairman's Commendation from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the second person in the United States to be so honored. Margolin has lectured widely and has served as advisor and mentor to many other publishers.
- In addition to founding Heyday (1974), News from Native California (1987), and Bay Nature (2001), he co-founded the Alliance for California Tradition Arts (1997), an organization devoted to California folk arts, and has served on its board since its beginning.
- In 2001, he co-founded Inlandia Institute, a literary center in Riverside, California.
- He currently serves on the Publication Committee of the Book Club of California and devotes time and effort to a number of environmental, cultural, and social justice organizations and causes. Margolin was born in Boston on October 27, 1940, and graduated with a degree in literature from Harvard University in 1964.
- He has lived in Berkeley since the late 1960s, where he and his wife, Rina, have raised three children: Reuben (1970), Sadie (1974), and Jacob (1980).
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