[1] From his founding of Heyday in 1974 until his retirement at the end of 2015, he oversaw the publication of several hundred books and the creation of two quarterly magazines: News from Native California, devoted to the history and ongoing cultural concerns of California Indians, and Bay Nature, devoted to the natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area.

His essays and articles have appeared in a number of periodicals including The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times.

[3] He attended Boston Latin School[3] and Harvard University, where he earned a degree in English Literature in 1964.

He currently serves on the Publication Committee of the Book Club of California and devotes time and effort to a number of environmental, cultural, and social justice organizations and causes.

He has lived in Berkeley, California since the late 1960s,[3] where he and his wife, Rina, have raised three children: Reuben (1970), Sadie (1974), and Jacob (1980).