The
Louisiana State University Press is a
nonprofit book publisher and an academic unit of
Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, the press publishes scholarly, general interest, and regional books as part of the university’s mission to disseminate knowledge and culture. A member of the
Association of American University Presses, LSU Press is one of the oldest and largest
university presses in the
southern United States. As an integral part of LSU, the Press receives some state funding, but it is 90 percent self-supporting thanks to revenue from book sales, subsidiary rights, licenses, grants, and private contributions.
LSU Press publishes about eighty new books a year and has a backlist of about 1,000 titles. The Press’s primary focus includes the U.S. South and
Gulf South regions; the
American Civil War and
World War II;
poetry;
political philosophy and
communications; music, particularly
jazz;
geography; and
environmental studies. The Press was the original publisher of
John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
A Confederacy of Dunces. The Press launched its paperback fiction reprint series,
Voices of the South, in the mid-1990s.
Honors and awards
The recipient of four
Pulitzer Prizes, LSU Press is the only university press to have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry. LSU books have also earned other honors, including the...
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