Robert Mailer Anderson

Author

Robert Mailer Anderson is a writer, producer, activist, father of four, and 9th generation Californio. He was born in San Francisco and graduated high school in Boonville. Aside from the novel “Boonville,” he is the co-writer/producer of the films “Windows on the World” (also a graphic novel published by Fantagraphics, translated into French by Komics Iniative) and the cult horror classic “Pig Hunt,” the graphic novel “My Fairy Godfather,” the play “The Death of Teddy Ballgame,” and has been a contributor to The Anderson Valley Advertiser for almost 40 years, as well as having his work appear in numerous other publications. His short story “Briley Boy” was included in Akashic’s “San Francisco Noir Anthology.” Anderson served on the SFJAZZ board and lead the capital campaign to build the SFJAZZ Center – “the first stand-alone building for jazz in America.” He was appointed by Governor Newsom to the California Humanities Board in 2020, is a board member of PEN Oakland, and on the advisory board of Los Cenzontles. As a music producer, he has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and won two NAACP Image Awards. He was the 2013 Colonial Standard Bearer for the Selkirk Common Riding, received the San Francisco Arts Medallion in 2016, and was the 1987 Anderson Valley High School student body president, until impeached.