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{{short description|University press associated with Yale}}
{{Infobox publisher
| image = [[File:Yale press logo.png|100px]]
| parent = [[Yale University]]
| status =
| founded = {{Start date and age|1908}}
| founder = George Parmly Day
| country = United States
| headquarters = [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], [[Connecticut]], U.S.
| distribution = [[LSC Communications|TriLiteral]] (United States)<br>[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] (international)<ref>[https://yalebooks.yale.edu/contact-us Contact Us]</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title = Third Party Distribution {{!}} Wiley| access-date = 2018-02-08| url = https://hub.wiley.com/docs/wiley-emea/third-party-distribution-DOC-1974}}</ref>
| topics = Various
| genre = Poetry, Literature in translation
| imprints =
| url = {{URL|https://yalebooks.yale.edu/}}
}}
[[File:Portrait of George Parmly Day.jpg|thumb|160px|right|George Parmly Day, founder of the Yale University Press]]'''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 (publisher)|Benjamin Day]], and became an official [[Academic department|department]] of [[Yale University]] in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous.<ref>{{cite book| last=Bradley | first=George | title=The Yale Younger Poets Anthology | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/yaleyoungerpoets00brad_0 | chapter-url-access=registration | location=New Haven and London | year=1998 | page=[https://archive.org/details/yaleyoungerpoets00brad_0/page/24 24] | chapter=Introduction| isbn=9780300074734 }}</ref><ref>"George P. Day, 83, of Yale is Dead". The New York Times. 25 October 1959.</ref>

{{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 Award]]s, two [[National Book Critics Circle Award]]s and eight [[Pulitzer Prize]]s.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/02-12-11-02.all.html| title= Donatich Appointed New Director of Yale University Press| publisher= [[Yale University]]| date= December 11, 2002| work= Press release| access-date= 2011-01-25| archive-date= 2007-05-13| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070513134057/http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/02-12-11-02.all.html| url-status= dead}}</ref>

The press maintains offices in [[New Haven, Connecticut]] and [[London|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]].<ref>[http://www.triliteral.org/ TriLiteral]</ref> TriLiteral was sold to [[LSC Communications]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web| title = LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books| work = PublishersWeekly.com| access-date = 2018-07-08| url = https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/76495-lsc-buys-triliteral-turner-purchases-g-rze-books.html}}</ref>

== Series and publishing programs ==
[[File:Yale University Press (logo).png|thumb|right|The Yale University Press' original logo, designed by [[Paul Rand]].]]
{{expand section|Early years|date=January 2011}}

=== Yale Series of Younger Poets ===
{{main|Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition}}
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 (poet)|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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150320220300/http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/drama.asp Yale Drama Series: Prize for Emerging Playwrights] from the Yale University Press website</ref>

=== 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.yupnet.org/2007/09/25/breaking-news-y/|title=Yale University Press Acquires Anchor Bible Series from Doubleday|date=2007-09-25|website=Yale Books Unbound|publisher=Yale University Press|access-date=2017-01-24|archive-date=2015-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093736/http://blog.yupnet.org/2007/09/25/breaking-news-y/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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,<ref>[http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPage.asp?series=127 The Future of American Democracy Series] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024195159/http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPage.asp?Series=127 |date=2015-10-24 }} from the Yale University Press official website</ref> 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]].<ref>[http://thefutureofamericandemocracyfoundation.org/ Official website] of the Future of American Democracy Foundation</ref>

=== The Lamar Series in Western History ===
The Lamar Series in Western History (formerly the Yale Western Americana series)<ref>[[Nicholas A. Basbanes|Basbanes, Nicholas A.]] ''A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008'', New Haven and London, 2008. p. 222, Centennial Highlights</ref> 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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100621114100/http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPage.asp?series=122 The Lamar Series in Western History] from the Yale University Press official website</ref>

=== 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."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Yale Press launches new imprint with 'global bookstore appeal' |author= |journal=Yale Bulletin and Calendar |date=September 22, 2000 |volume=29 |issue=3 |publisher=Yale University Press |url=https://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v29.n3/story4.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209021125/https://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v29.n3/story4.html |archive-date=2012-02-09 }}</ref>

==Controversies==

===Mangling the typesetting of 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.<ref>{{cite journal|title="Mangling a Masterpiece" by Henry Hazlitt, National Review, Tuesday, May 5th, 1964}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garynorth.com/public/10958.cfm|title=Publishing Atrocity: The 1963 Edition of Human Action|last=GaryNorth.com|date=2 May 2013}}</ref>

===Muhammad cartoon controversy===
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]].<ref>{{cite web| work=The New York Times | date=August 13, 2009 | title=Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book | author= Patricia Cohen | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/books/13book.html}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Literature|Connecticut}}
* [[List of English-language book publishing companies]]
* [[List of university presses]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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*{{Wikisource-inline|Portal:Yale University Press|Yale University Press}}
* {{Official website}}
* [http://www.yalebooks.co.uk/ Yale University Press, London]
* [[hdl:10079/fa/beinecke.yup|Yale University Press Records]]. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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