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}}(File:Kittredge Hall - Harvard University - DSC01440.jpg|thumbnail|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.NEWS, As Many Books as Possible Short of Bankruptcy,harvardmagazine.com/2013/03/as-many-books-as-possible-short-of-bankruptcy, March–April 2013, Harvard Magazine, January 28, 2015, It is a member of the Association of University Presses.WEB, Our Members,aupresses.org/membership/membership-list/, January 30, 2023, Association of University Presses, After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as George Andreou as director.NEWS, New director for Harvard University Press,news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/07/new-director-for-harvard-university-press/, July 12, 2017, Harvard Gazette, July 14, 2017, 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 TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018.WEB, LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books, Publishers Weekly, 2018-07-08,www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/76495-lsc-buys-triliteral-turner-purchases-g-rze-books.html, Jim, Milliot, Apr 3, 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.{{cn|date=May 2024}}The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.NEWS, Last Chapter,harvardmagazine.com/2009/09/harvard-press-display-room-closes, September–October 2009, Harvard Magazine, December 2, 2010,

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.NEWS, For Explorers of Our Past: Harvard Guide to American History,select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F7081EF83A58117A93CBA9178ED85F408585F9, May 9, 1954, The New York Times Book Review, Bridenbaugh, Carl, Carl Bridenbaugh, May 30, 2010, 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 RomanBOOK, Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act, 2011, Joe, Roman, Joe Roman, Harvard University Press, 9780674061279, received the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.WEB, Winners: SEJ 11th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment, Society of Environmental Journalists, October 17, 2012, July 15, 2017,www.sej.org/initiatives/winners-sej-11th-annual-awards-reporting-environment#RachelCarsonBook,www.sej.org/initiatives/winners-sej-11th-annual-awards-reporting-environment#RachelCarsonBook," title="web.archive.org/web/20170824053431www.sej.org/initiatives/winners-sej-11th-annual-awards-reporting-environment#RachelCarsonBook,">web.archive.org/web/20170824053431www.sej.org/initiatives/winners-sej-11th-annual-awards-reporting-environment#RachelCarsonBook, August 24, 2017, dead,

Publications

See also

• List of English-language book publishing companies
• List of university presses

References

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Bibliography

• BOOK, Harvard University Press: A History, Hall, Max, 1986, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 978-0-674-38080-6,archive.org/details/harvarduniversit0000hall, registration,

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