Jack Hoffman, Abbie's only brother, was also his longtime manager, researcher, and confidant. A retired businessman, he lives in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Editor and author Dan Simon founded Seven Stories Press in 1995, and the predecessor company Four Walls Eight Windows in 1984. While at Four Walls Eight Windows, Simon answered a classified ad that Abbie Hoffman had placed in the Nation and worked with Hoffman to produce his last book, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, an omnibus collection that included Abbie's three major works, Steal This Book, Woodstock Nation, and Revolution for the Hell of It, with a foreword by Norman Mailer. After Abbie's untimely death in the spring of 1989, Abbie's younger brother Jack approached Simon and asked him if he would write Abbie's biography from Jack's point of view, a brother's story, and Simon agreed. The first edition of Run Run Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman was published by Putnam under their Jeremy Tarcher imprint.