Steve Wasserman is publisher of Heyday, an independent, nonprofit press founded in 1974 in Berkeley, California. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Wasserman is former books editor of the Los Angeles Times, past publisher of Hill & Wang and the Noonday Press at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, former editorial director of Times Books at Random House, and editor at large for Yale University Press. He is the author of Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays.