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Parent company | Harvard University |
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Founded | January 13, 1913 |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Distribution | TriLiteral (United States) John Wiley & Sons (international) [1] |
Key people | George Andreou (Director) |
Publication types | Academic publishing |
Imprints | Belknap |
Official website | www |
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]
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.
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.
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