Malcolm Margolin

Malcolm Margolin (born October 27, 1940) is an author and book publisher, the founder and owner of Heyday Books in Berkeley, California.

Margolin was born in Boston on October 27, 1940. He graduated with a degree in literature from Harvard University in 1964, then moved to New York. In 1967 he and his wife Rina rented a car and drove to Yosemite National Park, and went whitewater rafting on the Merced River. The couple then traveled to Berkeley, discovering Tilden Regional Park and the San Francisco Bay. Returning to New York, they later moved out to California and settled in Berkeley in 1970. Margolin worked for a time as a groundskeeper for the East Bay Regional Park District.

Befriending Berkeley bookseller Fred Cody, the owner of Cody's Books, Margolin became interested in publishing. Margolin and Cody organized an event called the Inkslingers' Festival. In 1974 Margolin founded Heyday Books, with the publication of his book The East Bay Out, a guide to the East Bay Regional Parks. Heyday publishes books on the history, literature and environment of California, with specific focuses on California Native Americans and the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 2001, he co-founded Bay Nature, a nonprofit quarterly magazine on the natural world of the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently on the Bay Nature Institute's board of directors.

Bibliography

Books authored by Margolin include The Earth Manual, a manual on ecological land restoration.

• The East Bay Out: A Personal Guide to the East Bay Regional Parks (rev. ed. ed.). Berkeley: Heyday Books. 1974. ISBN 0-930588-15-0. 
• The Earth Manual: How to Work on Wild Land without Taming It. Berkeley: Heyday Books. 1985. ISBN 0-930588-18-5. 
• Margolin, Malcolm; and Jeannine Gendar (eds.) (1992). California Indians and the Environment. Berkeley: Heyday Books. ISBN 0-930588-60-6. 
• Margolin, Malcolm (ed.) (1993). The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences. Berkeley: Heyday Books. ISBN 0-930588-55-X. 
• Living in a Well-ordered World: Indian People of Northwestern California. Redwood National Park. 1994. 
• Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories. Berkeley: Heyday Books. 1995. ISBN 0-930588-73-8. 
• The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco–Monterey Bay Area. Berkeley: Heyday Books. 2003. ISBN 0-930588-01-0. 
• Pitcher, Don; and Malcolm Margolin (history) (1989). Berkeley Inside/Out. Berkeley: Heyday Books. ISBN 0-930588-33-9. 

External links

• Heyday Books website
• Bay Nature website