Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing
house established on January 13, 1913, as
a division of Harvard University, and focused
on academic publishing. In 2005, it published
220 new titles. It is a member of the Association
of American University Presses. After the
retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the
university appointed as Director George Andreou;
the editor-in-chief is Susan Wallace Boehmer.
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. TriLiteral was
sold to LSC Communications in 2018.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.
== Related publishers, imprints, and series
==
HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint, which
it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication
of the Harvard Guide to American History.
The John Harvard Library book series is published
under the Belknap imprint.
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
received the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment
Book Award from the Society of Environmental
Journalists.
== Publications ==
== References ==
== Bibliography ==
Hall, Max (1986). Harvard University Press:
A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press. ISBN 978-0-674-38080-6.
== External links ==
Official website
Blog of Harvard University Press
