LSU Press - Where Scholarship and Southern Storytelling Meet
From Pulitzer Prize winners to groundbreaking regional studies, LSU Press has been publishing work that shapes scholarship and celebrates Southern culture for 90 years and counting.
One of the oldest university presses in the South, LSU Press was established in 1935, and quickly rose to prominence as one of the nation’s preeminent scholarly publishers. Throughout its ninety-year history, the Press has published exceptional works of scholarship as well as books of wide interest to general readers, by authors including Pulitzer Prize-winners Robert Penn Warren, Claudia Emerson, and Yusef Komunyakaa, and classic works of southern fiction like John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. Along the way it has garnered national and international accolades that include four Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bancroft Prize, the Tom Watson Brown Award in Civil War History, the Frederick Douglass Award in Slavery Studies, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Today, LSU Press publishes around seventy new books each year, primarily in the fields of southern history, southern literary studies, Louisiana history and culture, environmental studies, southern foodways, media studies, landscape architecture, fan studies, poetry, and fiction. Since 1935, the Press has published close to 3,500 books, nearly 2,000 of which are still in print, and has distributed over 7 million books—all bearing the LSU imprint—worldwide.
“LSU Press furthers the mission of the University by publishing works of scholarly and creative excellence, amplifying a range of voices while promoting dialogue about the rich and varied cultures of Louisiana, the South, and the world beyond.”
LSU Press is an integral part of Louisiana State University and shares its goal of disseminating knowledge and culture. The Press attracts noteworthy authors from Louisiana, the South, the nation, and the world, contributing to LSU’s academic prominence through a broad array of scholarly inquiry. Additionally, as the largest nonprofit publisher in Louisiana, the Press takes seriously its mission to promote the abundant cultural assets of the state and region to readers around the globe. All LSU Press books undergo a rigorous peer-review process and must be approved by a faculty committee before publication, ensuring their content meets the highest criteria for excellence.
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