Robert Mailer Anderson is a writer, producer, activist, and 9th generation Californio. He is the author of the graphic novel My Fairy Godfather, the best-selling novel Boonville, co-writer/producer of the films Pig Hunt and Windows on the World – which was also a graphic novel – and the play The Death of Teddy Ballgame. He has been a contributor to The Anderson Valley Advertiser for 40 years, among other publications. Anderson has been on the California Humanities Board since 2020, is a board member of PEN Oakland, and is an advisory board member of Los Cenzontles. As a music producer, he has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and won two NAACP Image Awards. He was named a San Francisco Library Laureate three times, the 2013 Colonial Standard Bearer for the Selkirk Common Ride, and received the San Francisco Arts Medallion in 2016.