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About meBeacon Press is an independent publisher of serious non-fiction and fiction. Our books often change the way readers think about fundamental issues; they promote such values as freedom of speech and thought; diversity, religious pluralism, and anti-racism; and respect for diversity in all areas of life.

About my libraryFounded in 1854, Beacon has published many ground-breaking classics, including James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, Jean Baker Miller's Toward a New Psychology of Women, and Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology. In 1971, Beacon printed the Senator Gravel Edition of The Pentagon Papers in five volumes. This groundbreaking achievement marked the first time those papers had appeared in book form. Beacon is also the publisher of Marian Wright Edelman's best-selling book, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and Cornel West's acclaimed Race Matters. Recent publications include Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Rashid Khalidi's Resurrecting Empire, and four new titles by Pulitzer-prize winning poet Mary Oliver (Blue Iris; New and Selected Poems, Volume Two; Owls and Other Fantasies; and Why I Wake Early.

Our current publishing program emphasizes religion, history, current affairs, political science, gay/lesbian/gender studies, education, African-American studies, women's studies, child and family issues and nature and the environment. In 1993 Beacon was voted "Trade Publisher of the Year" by the Literary Market Place . In addition, Beacon and its authors have received National Book Awards, the American Book Award, the Christopher Award, the National Writers Union Golden Pen Award, the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Book Publication, and the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award and Friend to Writers Award, and has been named the New England Publisher of the Year.

In the words of Dana Frank, Professor of American Studies at UC, Santa Cruz, "Beacon Press continues to pioneer in publishing works that are central to an embracing vision of the American people and our future together. Their books are always beautifully produced, of the highest literary and artistic quality and able to bridge the best of scholarship with popular accessibility."

Beacon is an associate member of the Association of American University Presses. We are a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

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