Heyday Books
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Heyday is an independent nonprofit publisher based in Berkeley, California.
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Founded | 1974; 50 years ago (1974) |
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Founder | Malcolm Margolin |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Berkeley, California |
Publication types | books, magazines |
Nonfiction topics | California, natural history, Native Americans |
Official website | www |
Heyday was founded by Malcolm Margolin in 1974 when he wrote, typeset, designed, and distributed The East Bay Out, a guide to the natural history of the hills and bay shore in and round Berkeley and Oakland, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.[1] Heyday publishes around twenty books a year, as well as the quarterly magazine News from Native California.
In 2004, they merged with their nonprofit wing, the Clapperstick Institute, and became a full-fledged 501(c)(3) nonprofit enterprise.[2] In 2016, Margolin retired from Heyday, and Steve Wasserman, previously editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and an editor-at-large at Yale University Press, became Margolin's successor as publisher and executive director.[3] Since 2020, the company has been co-led by Wasserman, publisher, and longtime staff member Gayle Wattawa, now general manager.[4]