Harvard University Press

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Harvard University Press
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Parent company Harvard University
FoundedJanuary 13, 1913;111 years ago (1913-01-13)
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Distribution TriLiteral (United States)
John Wiley & Sons (international) [1]
Key peopleGeorge Andreou (Director)
Publication types Academic publishing
Imprints Belknap
Official website www.hup.harvard.edu
Kittredge Hall, home to Harvard University Press Kittredge Hall - Harvard University - DSC01440.jpg
Kittredge Hall, home to Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. [2] It is a member of the Association of University Presses. [3] After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as George Andreou as director. [4]

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The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. [5] TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. [6]

Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty.[ citation needed ]

The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. [7]

HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the Harvard Guide to American History. [8] The John Harvard Library book series is published under the Belknap imprint, which was established through an endowment from the estate of art historian and Harvard alumnus Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr.

Harvard University Press distributes the Loeb Classical Library and is the publisher of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and the Murty Classical Library of India.

It is distinct from Harvard Business Press, which is part of Harvard Business Publishing, and the independent Harvard Common Press.

Awards

Its 2011 publication Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act by Joe Roman [9] received the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists. [10]

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References

  1. TriLiteral
  2. "As Many Books as Possible Short of Bankruptcy". Harvard Magazine . March–April 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  3. "Our Members". Association of University Presses . Retrieved January 30, 2023.
  4. "New director for Harvard University Press". Harvard Gazette . July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  5. TriLiteral
  6. Milliot, Jim (April 3, 2018). "LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  7. "Last Chapter". Harvard Magazine . September–October 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
  8. Bridenbaugh, Carl (May 9, 1954). "For Explorers of Our Past: Harvard Guide to American History". The New York Times Book Review . Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  9. Roman, Joe (2011). Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act. Harvard University Press. ISBN   9780674061279.
  10. "Winners: SEJ 11th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment". Society of Environmental Journalists . October 17, 2012. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.

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