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Yale University Press

Parent company	Yale University
Founded	1908; 116 years ago (1908)
Founder	George Parmly Day
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Distribution	TriLiteral (United States) Wiley (international)
Nonfiction topics	Various
Fiction genres	Poetry, Literature in translation
Official website	yalebooks.yale.edu

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous.

As of 2020, Yale University Press publishes approximately 300 new hardcover and 150 new paperback books annually and has a backlist of about 5,000 books in print. Its books have won five National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards and eight Pulitzer Prizes.

The press maintains offices in New Haven, Connecticut and London, England. Yale is the only American university press with a full-scale publishing operation in Europe. It was a co-founder of the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Harvard University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018.

Series and publishing programs

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Yale Series of Younger Poets

Since its inception in 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition has published the first collection of poetry by new poets. The first winner was Howard Buck; the 2011 winner was Katherine Larson.

Yale Drama Series

Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre jointly sponsor the Yale Drama Series, a playwriting competition. The winner of the annual competition is awarded the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Rep. The Yale Drama Series and David C. Horn Prize are funded by the David Charles Horn Foundation.

Anchor Yale Bible Series

In 2007, Yale University Press acquired the Anchor Bible Series, a collection of more than 115 volumes of biblical scholarship, from the Doubleday Publishing Group. New and backlist titles are now published under the Anchor Yale Bible Series name.

Future of American Democracy Series

Yale University Press is publishing the Future of American Democracy Series, which "aims to examine, sustain, and renew the historic vision of American democracy in a series of books by some of America's foremost thinkers", in partnership with the Future of American Democracy Foundation.

The Lamar Series in Western History

The Lamar Series in Western History (formerly the Yale Western Americana series) was established in 1962 to publish works that enhance the understanding of human affairs in the American West and contribute to a wider understanding of why the West matters in the political, social, and cultural life of America.

Terry Lectures Series

The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship was established in 1905 to encourage the consideration of religion in the context of modern science, psychology, and philosophy. Many of the lectures, which are hosted by Yale University, have been edited into book form by the Yale University Press.

Yale Nota Bene

On September 22, 2000, Yale University Press announced a new Yale Nota Bene imprint that would "feature reprints of best-selling and classic Yale Press titles encompassing works of history, religion, science, current affairs, reference and biography, in addition to fiction, poetry and drama."

Controversies

Mises' Human Action

In 1963, the Press published a revised edition of Ludwig von Mises's Human Action. In the May 5, 1964 issue of National Review, Henry Hazlitt wrote the story "Mangling a Masterpiece", accusing Yale University Press of intentionally typesetting the new edition in an amateurish fashion, due to the Press's differing ideological beliefs.

Muhammad cartoons

In August 2009, officials at the Press ignited a controversy when they decided to expunge reproductions of the cartoons involved in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, along with all other images of Muhammad, from a scholarly book entitled The Cartoons that Shook the World, by professor Jytte Klausen.

Internet Archive Lawsuit

Yale 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.

See also

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

References

1. "Contact Us".
2. "Third Party Distribution". Wiley. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
3. Bradley, George (1998). "Introduction". The Yale Younger Poets Anthology. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 24. ISBN 9780300074734.
4. "George P. Day, 83, of Yale is Dead". New York Times. October 25, 1959.
5. "Donatich Appointed New Director of Yale University Press" (Press release). Yale University. December 11, 2002. Archived from the original on May 13, 2007. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
6. "TriLiteral". TriLiteral. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
7. "LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
8. "Yale Drama Series: Prize for Emerging Playwrights". Yale University Press. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015.
9. "Yale University Press Acquires Anchor Bible Series from Doubleday". Yale Books Unbound. Yale University Press. September 25, 2007. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
10. "The Future of American Democracy Series". Archived from the original on October 24, 2015.
11. "The Future of American Democracy Foundation". Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
12. Basbanes, Nicholas A. (2008). "Centennial Highlights". A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 222. doi:10.12987/9780300142723.
13. "The Lamar Series in Western History". Archived from the original on June 21, 2010.
14. "Yale Press launches new imprint with 'global bookstore appeal'". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. Yale University Press. September 22, 2000. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012.
15. Hazlitt, Henry (May 5, 1964). "Mangling a Masterpiece". National Review.
16. North, Gary (May 2, 2013). "Publishing Atrocity: The 1963 Edition of Human Action".
17. Cohen, Patricia (August 13, 2009). "Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book". The New York Times.
18. https://help.archive.org/help/why-are-so-many-books-listed-as-borrow-unavailable-at-the-internet-archive/
19. https://publishers.org/who-we-are/our-members/

External links

• Media related to Yale University Press at Wikimedia Commons
• Works related to Yale University Press at Wikisource
• Official website
• Yale University Press, London
• Yale University Press Records. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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