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Yale University Press
American university international publisher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[3][4]
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Parent company | Yale University |
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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)[1][2] |
Nonfiction topics | Various |
Fiction genres | Poetry, Literature in translation |
Official website | yalebooks |
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As of 2020[update], 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.[5]
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.[6] TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018.[7]