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PubWest's 2020 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award is going to Malcolm Margolin, author, publisher and founder and executive director of the California Institute for Community, Arts, and Nature.
"His love of books, his dedication to language and its preservation, and his reverence for the natural world and our mutually beloved state of California have made him a hero to me and every other Western publisher," said Colleen Dunn Bates, PubWest board president and publisher at Prospect Park Books. "I can think of no one more deserving of this honor."
Throughout his prolific career, Margolin wrote several books on California natural history, cultural history and Indian life, such as The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area; founded the independent nonprofit publisher Heyday (formerly Heyday Books); oversaw the creation of the magazines News from Native California and Bay Nature; and was deeply involved in a variety of cultural institutions like the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, the Inlandia Institute, the California Baksetweavers Association and Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. His next book, Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderments in Native California, will be published by Heyday in 2021.
Margolin will accept the award during the PubWest 2020 conference, slated for February 20-22 in Portland, Ore.