David Talbot is a longtime San Franciscan, journalist and author. “Season of the Witch,” his history of San Francisco from the 1960s to the 1980s, was on The Chronicle’s bestseller list for ...

She also wrote, with her brother David Talbot, “By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution,” about left-wing activism in the nineteen-sixties ...