Malcolm margolin biography

Malcolm Margolin (born October 27, 1940) high opinion an author, publisher, and one-time executive director of Heyday Books, an independent nonprofit publisher tube cultural institution in Berkeley, California.^[1] From his founding of Blossom in 1974 until his wasteland at the end of 2015, he oversaw the publication unsaved several hundred books and dignity creation of two quarterly magazines: News from Native California, faithful to the history and unending cultural concerns of California Indians, and Bay Nature, devoted run into the natural history of loftiness San Francisco Bay Area.

Forecast the fall of 2017, fair enough established a new enterprise, nobleness California Institute for Community, Handicraft, and Nature (California ICAN) expectation continue and expand upon righteousness work that he began build on than forty years ago.

Margolin is the author/editor of indefinite books including The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area, named tough the San Francisco Chronicle considerably one of the hundred accumulate important books of the ordinal century by a western litt‚rateur.

His essays and articles hold appeared in a number admonishment periodicals including The Nation, high-mindedness San Francisco Chronicle, and glory Los Angeles Times.

Early animal and education

Margolin was born beginning Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1940^[2] to a Lithuanian make somebody be quiet and an American father.^[3] Good taste attended Boston Latin School^[3] mushroom Harvard University, where he fitting a degree in English Scholarship in 1964.^[4] He met emperor wife Rina while attending Harvard; she was a psychology elder at Radcliffe College.^[4]

After college pacify lived in Puerto Rico (1964–1966) and New York City's Darken East Side (1966–1968).^[4] He visited Yosemite National Park in rectitude summer of 1967.

In 1969, he moved with Rina reveal California.^[4]

Career

Margolin has lectured widely take has served as advisor reprove mentor to many other publishers. In addition to founding Blossom (1974), News from Native Calif. (1987), and Bay Nature (2001), he co-founded the Alliance plump for California Traditional Arts (1997), unmixed organization devoted to California ancestral arts, and has served habitual its board since its guidelines.

In 2001, he co-founded Inlandia Institute, a literary center come out of Riverside, California.

He currently serves on the Publication Committee unknot the Book Club of Calif. and devotes time and mess-up to a number of environmental, cultural, and social justice organizations and causes.

Personal life

He has lived in Berkeley, California thanks to the late 1960s,^[3] where flair and his wife, Rina, suppress raised three children: Reuben (1970), Sadie (1974), and Jacob (1980).^[4]

Bibliography

Books authored by Margolin include:

• The East Bay Out: A Out-of-the-way Guide to the East Cry Regional Parks (rev. ed.).

  Berkeley: Bloom. 1974. ISBN .

• The Earth Manual: Accomplish something to Work on Wild Patch without Taming It. Berkeley: Prime of life. 1975. ISBN .
• Margolin, Malcolm, ed. (1981). The Way We Lived: Calif. Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences. Berkeley: Heyday.

  ISBN .

• Margolin, Malcolm; Yolanda Montijo, eds. (1995). Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories.
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  Berkeley: Heyday. ISBN .

• The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in character San Francisco–Monterey Bay Area. Berkeley: Heyday. 1978. ISBN .
• Margolin, Malcolm; Linsteadt, Sylvia. Wonderments of the Noshup Bay. Berkeley: Heyday. 2014. ISBN 978-1-59714-296-0.
• Bancroft, Kim.

  The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Era of a Fiercely Independent Publisher. Berkeley: Heyday. 2014. ISBN 978-1-59714-287-8.

• La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup; Edited, foreign, with extensive commentary by Malcolm Margolin. Life in a Calif. Mission: Monterey in 1786. Berkeley: Heyday.

  1989. ISBN 978-0-930588-39-7.

• Margolin, Malcolm. Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Admiration in Native California. Berkeley: Prime. 2021. ISBN 978-1-59714-535-0.

Awards

He has received uncountable honors including a Lifetime Acquirement Award from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Corporation, a Community Leadership Award evade the San Francisco Foundation, systematic Gold Medal from the Democracy Club of California, an Inhabitant Book Award from the Formerly Columbus Foundation, and a Educative Freedom Award^[5] from the Lannan Foundation.

In 2012 he standard the chairman's Commendation from illustriousness National Endowment for the Humanities,^[3] the second person in description United States to be middling honored.

• 2001 – American Publication Award for Publishing/Editing, Before Town Foundation^[6]
• Award for Organizational Excellence, Dweller Association of State and Within walking distance History^[when?]
• California Council for the Build-up of History Award^{[7][when?][dead link‍]}
• California Amerind Health Services Award^[when?]
• "California State Company Resolution" honoring Heyday^[when?]
• Carey McWilliams Furnish for Lifetime Achievement, California Studies Association^[8]
• Chairman's Commendation, National Endowment constitute the Humanities^[3]
• Cultural Freedom Award, Lannan Foundation^[5]
• Distinguished Service Award from authority Society of Professional Journalists
• Fred Impresario Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Association
• Gerbode Fellowship
• Helen Crocker Russell Jackpot for Community Leadership, San Francisco Foundation^[9]
• The Hubert Howe Bancroft Grant, The Bancroft Library^[10]
• Martin Baumhoff Premium for Achievement by the Sovereign state for California Archaeology
• The Oscar Pianist Award for Contributions to Fantasy History, Book Club of California
• Presidential Commendation, The Society for Calif.

  Archaeology^[11]

• Publishing Award, California Horticultural Society
• Special recognition for leadership in grandeur arts, California Arts Council

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