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Malcolm Margolin is an independent publisher (founder owner of Heyday Books) and an author with a special interest in memoirs and diaries, the Native-American ethnic groups of California, and the geographical territory which is the state of California.
Born in Boston in 1941, he graduated in literature from Harvard in 1964 and moved to New York. In 1967 he and his wife rented a car and drove across the plains, the badlands, and the desert to Yosemite. He found the Yosemite area breathtakingly beautiful and fascinating. After this, and a float down the Merced River on an air mattress, the couple discovered Berkeley, Tilden Park, and the view across the San Francisco Bay. Returning to New York, they later moved out to California and settled in Berkeley in 1970. Margolin spent time working as a groundskeeper for the East Bay Parks Board.
Having come under the influence of Berkeley’s Fred Cody, Margolin became interested in publishing. Margolin and Cody organized an event called the Inkslingers’ Festival. Margolin founded Heyday books in 1974, devoted to (among other topics) a celebration of the history, literature and environment of California. Heyday's first book was one that Margolin authored, an intensive do-it-yourself manual to ecological land restoration.
Heyday Books has grown into a solid and important Bay Area independent publishing firm.
Books Authored by Malcolm Margolin
- East Bay Out: a Personal Guide to East Bay Regional Parks
- Night in a Shaman’s House
- The Way We Lived; California Indian Reminiscences, Stories and Songs. Edited by M. Margolin
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