The 'Harvard University Press' is a
publishing house, a division of
Harvard University, that is highly respected in
academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the
Association of American University Presses (AAUP). The current director is William P. Sisler and the editor-in-chief is Michael G. Fisher.
The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square, and in London, England, as well as a Display Room in Harvard Square dedicated to selling HUP publications.
Notable HUP authors include
Eudora Welty,
Walter Benjamin,
E. O. Wilson,
John Rawls,
Emily Dickinson,
Stephen Jay Gould,
Helen Vendler, and
Carol Gilligan.
It owns the 'Belknap'
imprint and distributes the
Loeb Classical Library and
I Tatti Renaissance Library series.
The Harvard University Press has lent its name to the
Harvard comma, because the house
manual of style favors its use.
External links
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Official site of Harvard University Press
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Publicity blog of Harvard University Press
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Official site of the Association of American University Presses
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Interview with bookdepository.co.uk