Steve Wasserman
Since 2016, Steve Wasserman has served as publisher of Heyday, an independent nonprofit press founded in Berkeley fifty years ago, in 1974. He is past deputy editor of the Los Angeles Times op-ed and opinion section and was for nearly nine years the editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and a principal architect of the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. He was also editorial director of New Republic Books; publisher and editorial director of Hill & Wang at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and of the Noonday Press; and editorial director of Times Books at Random House. Later, he was a partner of Kneerim & Williams, a literary agency, where he represented numerous authors, including Christopher Hitchens, Linda Ronstadt, and David Thomson. Most recently, he was editor at large for Yale University Press until 2016, when he agreed to helm Heyday upon the retirement of its founder, Malcolm Margolin.