- Born
- Died
- Malcolm Margolin was born on October 27, 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for Secrets of Alcatraz (1992). He was married to Rina. He died on August 20, 2025 in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, USA.
- SpouseRina(1966 - August 20, 2025) (his death, 3 children)
- Founded the Berkeley-based Heyday books in 1974 and helped turn it into an outlet for Native Californian writing.
- He went to Harvard University in 1958, where he majored in English, but wouldn't graduate until 1964, dropping out a couple of times.
- He described his college years, in which he slowly acquired social skills, as being in a "cocoon more than I was getting wings".
- He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, a Community Leadership Award from the San Francisco Foundation, a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation.
- He retired from Heyday in 2015, at the age of 75.
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