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Just a note about the inclusion (See also section) of "Bollingen Press": it's properly called the Bollingen Series [1]. Athaenara (talk) 11:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
The external link, recently added, to A Century in Books, includes a description of 100 of the Press's most important books (including each of those listed here). It should allay the concerns of the wiki editor who feels that "influential" cannot describe some books of which s/he is not yet aware. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Girl2k ( talk • contribs) 05:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
In writing another article I've discovered that a link to Princeton Architectural Press is redirected to this article. Should this be the case? I had thought Princeton Architectural Press was a different entity than the Princeton University Press. http://www.papress.com Anyone know for sure? Arxiloxos ( talk) 05:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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A Brief History of Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher with close ties to Princeton University. The press was founded in 1905 by a recent Princeton graduate, Whitney Darrow, with financial support from another Princetonian, Charles Scribner II of the New York publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons. Beginning as a small, for-profit printer, Princeton University Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910 and gradually developed into a full-fledged book publisher. Since 1911, the press has been headquartered in a purpose-built gothic-style building designed by Ernest Flagg, the architect of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The design of press’s building, which was named the Scribner Building in 1965, was inspired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Princeton University Press established a European office, in Woodstock, England, north of Oxford, in 1999, and opened an additional office, in Beijing, in early 2017.
Princeton University Press is financially independent, with its own endowment, but the press has always been closely tied to Princeton University. The president of the university appoints the five faculty members that serve on the press’s editorial board. In addition, ten of the fifteen members of the press’s board of trustees must have a Princeton University connection.
The press has had seven directors: Whitney Darrow (1905–1917); Paul G. Tomlinson (1917–1938); Joseph Brandt (1938–1941); Datus C. Smith (1942–1952); Herbert S. Bailey Jr. (1954–1986); Walter H. Lippincott (1986–2005); and Peter J. Dougherty (2005–present). In December 2016, Peter Dougherty announced his plan to retire at the end of 2017, and in early 2017 a Princeton University search committee began looking for a new director. On May 30, 2017, the Press announced that Christie Henry, the Editorial Director of Sciences, Social Sciences, and Reference at the University of Chicago Press, would become Princeton University Press’s next director, effective in September 2017.
Princeton University Press has no connection to the New York-based Princeton Architectural Press.
Collected works and papers projects
Princeton University Press is the publisher of a number of collected works and collected papers projects, including The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, Kierkegaard’s Writings, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, The Complete Works of Aristotle, and The Collected Works of Spinoza.
The Digital Einstein Papers
In December 2014, Princeton University Press, working with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology, launched The Digital Einstein Papers, an online platform that provides open access to The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.
The Bollingen Series
In 1969, the Press acquired the Bollingen Series from Pantheon Books and the Bollingen Foundation. The series was started in 1940 by Paul and Mary Mellon and includes many books in psychology, mythology, archaeology, art history, religion, literature, and related fields. It includes the collected works of C. G. Jung, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Paul Valéry. The series also includes what became some of Princeton University Press’s bestselling books, including Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of The “I Ching,” or Book of Changes. Other notable titles in the series include the Collected Poems of Saint-John Perse, the 1960 Nobel Laureate in poetry; Kenneth Clark’s The Nude; E. H. Gombrich’s Art and Illusion; and Vladimir Nabokov’s four-volume translation of, and commentary on, Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. The Bollingen Series was largely completed in 2002 with the publication of its 275th volume, but one part of the series continues to produce new volumes, the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, cosponsored by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Notable books
In 2005, to mark its 100th anniversary, the press published A Century in Books, which listed what the press viewed as one hundred of its most significant titles published between 1905 and 2005. A chronological list of these books may be found here:
http://press.princeton.edu/about_pup/PUP100/book/chronlist.pdf
Princeton University Press authors who have won the Fields Medal or the Nobel Prize include:
J. Milnor | 1962 | Fields Medal |
Alain Connes | 1982 | Fields Medal |
William P. Thurston | 1982 | Fields Medal |
Michael Freedman | 1986 | Fields Medal |
Timothy Gowers | 1998 | Fields Medal |
Curtis T. McMullen | 1998 | Fields Medal |
Woodrow Wilson | 1919 | Nobel Peace Prize |
Manfred Eigen | 1967 | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Kenneth J. Arrow | 1972 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Milton Friedman | 1976 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
William Arthur Lewis | 1979 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Robert M. Solow | 1987 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
William F. Sharpe | 1990 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Douglass C. North | 1993 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
John F. Nash | 1994 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Amartya Sen | 1998 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
George A. Akerlof | 2001 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Joseph Stiglitz | 2001 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Robert F. Engle III | 2003 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Clive W.J. Granger | 2003 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Robert J. Aumann | 2005 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Edmund S. Phelps | 2006 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Elinor Ostrom | 2009 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Peter A. Diamond | 2010 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Thomas J. Sargent | 2011 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Alvin E. Roth | 2012 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Lloyd S. Shapley | 2012 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Robert J. Shiller | 2013 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Lars Peter Hansen | 2013 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Jean Tirole | 2014 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Angus Deaton | 2015 | Nobel Prize in Economics |
Maurice Maeterlinck | 1911 | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Luigi Pirandello | 1934 | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Saint-John Perse | 1960 | Nobel Prize in Literature |
George Seferis | 1963 | Nobel Prize in Literature |
S. Y. Agnon | 1966 | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Wisława Szymborksa | 1996 | Nobel Prize in Literature |
J. M. Coetzee | 2003 | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Mario Vargas Llosa | 2010 | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Albert Einstein | 1921 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Eugene P. Wigner | 1963 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Richard P. Feynman | 1965 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
P. W. Anderson | 1977 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Val L. Fitch | 1980 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
David J. Gross | 2004 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
François Jacob | 1965 | Nobel Prize in Medicine |
Baruch S. Blumberg | 1976 | Nobel Prize in Medicine |
Bestsellers and award-winning books
Six Princeton University Press books have won Pulitzer Prizes:
A number of Princeton University Press books have appeared on New York Times bestseller lists, including:
Some sources, other reading, and links
41Research ( talk) 21:01, 26 June 2017 (UTC)