Photo credit: Dennis AndersonSteve Wasserman
Steve Wasserman is publisher and executive director of Heyday, the Berkeley-based independent nonprofit press that is renowned for its books on California history, social justice, Indian cultural renewal, and honoring nature. Most recently, Heydey published “The Once and Future Forest: California’s Iconic Redwoods” (January 2019), a collaboration with Save the Redwoods League. Wasserman joined Heyday in 2016 after a 40-year career in journalism and publishing, serving variously as editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, editorial director of Hill & Wang at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and editor at large at Yale University Press.
