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Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, that is highly respected in academic publishing
Academic publishing

Academic publishing describes the subfield of publishing which distributes academia research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in Academic journal article, book or thesis form....
. 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
Association of American University Presses

The Association of American University Presses is an association of mostly, but not exclusively, North American university presses, with 129 member publishers as of 2005....
 (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
Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty was an award-winning American author and photographer who wrote about the Southern United States....
, Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Sch?nflies Benjamin was a Germany-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also influenced by the writings of his younger contemporaries Bertolt Brecht, who developed Marxist aesthetics of dialectical materialism, and G...
, E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson is an United States biologist, researcher , theorist , naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology....
, John Rawls
John Rawls

John Rawls was an United States philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy.Rawls received the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in 1999, the latter presented by U.S....
, Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life....
, Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American Paleontology, Evolution, and History of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....
, Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler

Helen Hennessy Vendler is a leading United States critic of poetry....
, and Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan

Carol Gilligan is an United States feminism, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics....
.

It owns the Belknap imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 and distributes the Loeb Classical Library
Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek Literature and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand leaf, and a fairly...
 and I Tatti Renaissance Library
I Tatti Renaissance Library

The I Tatti Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Harvard University , which aims to present important works of Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf, and an English translation on the facing page....
 series.

Harvard University Press has lent its name to the Harvard comma, because the house manual of style favors its use.








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Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, that is highly respected in academic publishing
Academic publishing

Academic publishing describes the subfield of publishing which distributes academia research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in Academic journal article, book or thesis form....
. 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
Association of American University Presses

The Association of American University Presses is an association of mostly, but not exclusively, North American university presses, with 129 member publishers as of 2005....
 (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
Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty was an award-winning American author and photographer who wrote about the Southern United States....
, Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Sch?nflies Benjamin was a Germany-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also influenced by the writings of his younger contemporaries Bertolt Brecht, who developed Marxist aesthetics of dialectical materialism, and G...
, E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson is an United States biologist, researcher , theorist , naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology....
, John Rawls
John Rawls

John Rawls was an United States philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy.Rawls received the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in 1999, the latter presented by U.S....
, Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life....
, Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American Paleontology, Evolution, and History of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....
, Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler

Helen Hennessy Vendler is a leading United States critic of poetry....
, and Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan

Carol Gilligan is an United States feminism, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics....
.

It owns the Belknap imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 and distributes the Loeb Classical Library
Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek Literature and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand leaf, and a fairly...
 and I Tatti Renaissance Library
I Tatti Renaissance Library

The I Tatti Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Harvard University , which aims to present important works of Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf, and an English translation on the facing page....
 series.

Harvard University Press has lent its name to the Harvard comma, because the house manual of style favors its use.

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