| Parent: | Harvard University |
| Country: | United States |
| Headquarters: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Distribution: | TriLiteral (United States) John Wiley & Sons (international)[1] |
| Keypeople: | George Andreou (Director) |
| Publications: | Academic publishing |
| Imprints: | Belknap |
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University.[2] It is a member of the Association of University Presses.[3] Its director since 2017 is George Andreou.[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]
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.
by Joe Roman, published in 2011,[9] received the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.[10]
Harvard University Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.[11] [12]
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