| Parent: | Harvard University |
| Country: | United States |
| Headquarters: | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Distribution: | TriLiteral (United States) John Wiley & Sons (international)[1] |
| Keypeople: | George Andreou (Director) |
| Publications: | Academic publishing |
| Imprints: | Belknap |
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 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]
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.
Its 2011 publication by Joe Roman[9] received the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.[10]
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