Louisiana State University Press
The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the Association of University Presses.
Louisiana State University Press
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- Founded
- 1935
- Headquarters
- Baton Rouge
- Part of
- Louisiana State University
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The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the Association of University Presses.
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Overview
Overview
LSU Press publishes approximately 70 new books each year and has a backlist of over 2000 titles. Primary fields of publication include southern history, southern literary studies, Louisiana and the Gulf South, the American Civil War and military history, roots music, southern culture, environmental studies, European history, foodways, poetry, fiction, media studies, and landscape architecture. In 2010, LSU Press merged with The Southern Review, LSU's literary magazine, and the company now oversees the operations of this publication. Domestic distribution for the press is currently provided by the University of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services.
Key facts
Key facts
• Country — United States • Headquarters — Baton Rouge, Louisiana • Distribution — Longleaf Services (US) Scholarly Book Services (Canada) • Keypeople — Alisa Plant, director • Publications — books, magazines • Url — http: www.lsupress.org
Institutional history
Dated record
Institutional history
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1935
Louisiana State University Press established.
1935
Louisiana State University Press is recorded from 1935.
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Notable publications and awards
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole was published in 1980 and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Three titles have won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: The Flying Change by Henry S. Taylor (1986), Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (1997), and Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (2006). Lisel Mueller's 1981 The Need to Hold Still won the National Book Award for Poetry that year. Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand- The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism won the 2019 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award from the Library History Round Table. Kelby Ouchley received the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 2023 for Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist's Memoir of Place. Gregg Andrews' Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 published in 2023 won the category of U.S. Maritime History at the John Lyman Book Awards.
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scholarly publication
- Germaine M. Reed. <i>David French Boyd: Founder of Louisiana State University</i>. (Southern Biography Series.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1977. Pp. xiv, 315. $20.00, The American Historical Review, 1978
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1978
- Napoleonic Propaganda. By <i>Robert B. Holtman</i>, Associate Professor of History, Louisiana State University. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1950. Pp. xv, 272. $4.00.), The American Historical Review, 1951
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1951
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- “Louisiana State University Press”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q16975504: Louisiana State University Press
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 106479324X, Louisiana State University Press.
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Awards Given
In honor of the longtime director of the press Les Phillabaum, who acquired several of the prizewinning books, and his long commitment to poetry publishing, the press established the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award in 2005.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 106479324X, Louisiana State University Press.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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