Harvard University Press

{{Short description|American publishing house}}

{{Not to be confused with|Harvard Business Publishing}}

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| parent = Harvard University

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| founded = {{Start date and age|1913|1|13}}

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| headquarters = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

| country = United States
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| distribution = TriLiteral (United States)
John Wiley & Sons (international)[http://www.triliteral.org/ TriLiteral]

| keypeople = George Andreou (Director)

| publications = Academic publishing

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| imprints = Belknap

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| url = {{URL|https://www.hup.harvard.edu}}

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Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University.{{cite news| title=As Many Books as Possible Short of Bankruptcy| url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/03/as-many-books-as-possible-short-of-bankruptcy|date=March–April 2013|work=Harvard Magazine| access-date=January 28, 2015}} It is a member of the Association of University Presses.{{cite web |title=Our Members |url=https://aupresses.org/membership/membership-list/ |access-date=January 30, 2023 |publisher=Association of University Presses}} Its director since 2017 is George Andreou.{{cite news| title=New director for Harvard University Press| url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/07/new-director-for-harvard-university-press/|date=July 12, 2017|work=Harvard Gazette| access-date=July 14, 2017}}

The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press.[http://www.triliteral.org/ TriLiteral] TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018.{{Cite web| title = LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books| work = Publishers Weekly| 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 |first1=Jim |last1=Milliot |date= Apr 3, 2018 }}

Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.{{cite news| title=Last Chapter| url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/09/harvard-press-display-room-closes|date=September–October 2009|work=Harvard Magazine| access-date=December 2, 2010}}