Steve Wasserman is publisher of Heyday, an independent, nonprofit press founded in 1974 and author of Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie. A graduate of UC Berkeley, he holds a degree in criminology. His past positions include serving as deputy editor of the op-ed page and opinion section of the Los Angeles Times; editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review; editorial director of New Republic Books; publisher and editorial director of Hill and Wang at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and of the Noonday Press; editorial director of Times Books at Random House; and editor at large for Yale University Press. A former partner of the literary agency Kneerim & Williams, he represented many authors, including Christopher Hitchens, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Scheer, and David Thomson. He lives in Berkeley, California.