Yale University Press

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Yale University Press
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Parent company Yale University
Founded1908;115 years ago (1908)
FounderGeorge Parmly Day
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters location New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Distribution TriLiteral (United States)
Wiley (international) [1] [2]
Nonfiction topicsVarious
Fiction genres Poetry, Literature in translation
Official website yalebooks.yale.edu
George Parmly Day, founder of the Yale University Press Portrait of George Parmly Day.jpg
George Parmly Day, founder of the Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. [3] [4]

Contents

As of 2020, Yale University Press publishes approximately 300 new hardcover and 150 new paperback books annually and has a backlist of about 5,000 books in print. Its books have won five National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards and eight Pulitzer Prizes. [5]

The press maintains offices in New Haven, Connecticut and London, England. Yale is the only American university press with a full-scale publishing operation in Europe. It was a co-founder of the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Harvard University Press. [6] TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. [7]

Series and publishing programs

The Yale University Press' original logo, designed by Paul Rand. Yale University Press (logo).png
The Yale University Press' original logo, designed by Paul Rand.

Yale Series of Younger Poets

Since its inception in 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition has published the first collection of poetry by new poets. The first winner was Howard Buck; the 2011 winner was Katherine Larson.

Yale Drama Series

Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre jointly sponsor the Yale Drama Series, a playwriting competition. The winner of the annual competition is awarded the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Rep. The Yale Drama Series and David C. Horn Prize are funded by the David Charles Horn Foundation. [8]

Anchor Yale Bible Series

In 2007, Yale University Press acquired the Anchor Bible Series, a collection of more than 115 volumes of biblical scholarship, from the Doubleday Publishing Group. [9] New and backlist titles are now published under the Anchor Yale Bible Series name.

Future of American Democracy Series

Yale University Press is publishing the Future of American Democracy Series, [10] which "aims to examine, sustain, and renew the historic vision of American democracy in a series of books by some of America's foremost thinkers", in partnership with the Future of American Democracy Foundation. [11]

The Lamar Series in Western History

The Lamar Series in Western History (formerly the Yale Western Americana series) [12] was established in 1962 to publish works that enhance the understanding of human affairs in the American West and contribute to a wider understanding of why the West matters in the political, social, and cultural life of America. [13]

Terry Lectures Series

The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship was established in 1905 to encourage the consideration of religion in the context of modern science, psychology, and philosophy. Many of the lectures, which are hosted by Yale University, have been edited into book form by the Yale University Press.

Yale Nota Bene

On September 22, 2000, Yale University Press announced a new Yale Nota Bene imprint that would "feature reprints of best-selling and classic Yale Press titles encompassing works of history, religion, science, current affairs, reference and biography, in addition to fiction, poetry and drama." [14]

Controversies

Mangling the typesetting of Mises' Human Action

In 1963, the Press published a revised edition of Ludwig von Mises's Human Action . In the May 5, 1964 issue of National Review , Henry Hazlitt wrote the story "Mangling a Masterpiece", accusing Yale University Press of intentionally typesetting the new edition in an amateurish fashion, due to the Press's differing ideological beliefs. [15] [16]

Muhammad cartoon controversy

In August 2009, officials at the Press ignited a controversy when they decided to expunge reproductions of the cartoons involved in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, along with all other images of Muhammad, from a scholarly book entitled The Cartoons that Shook the World , by professor Jytte Klausen. [17]

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  2. "Third Party Distribution | Wiley" . Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  3. Bradley, George (1998). "Introduction" . The Yale Younger Poets Anthology. New Haven and London. p.  24. ISBN   9780300074734.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. "George P. Day, 83, of Yale is Dead". The New York Times. 25 October 1959.
  5. "Donatich Appointed New Director of Yale University Press". Press release. Yale University. December 11, 2002. Archived from the original on May 13, 2007. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
  6. TriLiteral
  7. "LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  8. Yale Drama Series: Prize for Emerging Playwrights from the Yale University Press website
  9. "Yale University Press Acquires Anchor Bible Series from Doubleday". Yale Books Unbound. Yale University Press. September 25, 2007. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  10. The Future of American Democracy Series Archived 2015-10-24 at the Wayback Machine from the Yale University Press official website
  11. Official website of the Future of American Democracy Foundation
  12. Basbanes, Nicholas A. A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008, New Haven and London, 2008. p. 222, Centennial Highlights
  13. The Lamar Series in Western History from the Yale University Press official website
  14. "Yale Press launches new imprint with 'global bookstore appeal'". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. Yale University Press. 29 (3). September 22, 2000. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012.
  15. ""Mangling a Masterpiece" by Henry Hazlitt, National Review, Tuesday, May 5th, 1964".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. GaryNorth.com (May 2, 2013). "Publishing Atrocity: The 1963 Edition of Human Action".
  17. Patricia Cohen (August 13, 2009). "Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book". The New York Times.