Yale University Press

Its literary programs include the Yale Series of Younger Poets, established in 1919. The press maintains offices in New Haven, Connecticut and London, England. Yale is the only American university press with a full-scale publishing operation in Europe. It was a co-founder of the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Harvard University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018.

• Parent — Yale University • Status — Active • Founder — George Parmly Day Clarence Day • Country — United States • Headquarters — New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. • Distribution — TriLiteral (United States) Wiley (international) • Topics — Various • Genre — Poetry, Literature in translation • Imprints — Yale Nota Bene • Url — https: yalebooks.yale.edu/ • Illustration — The Yale University Press's logo from 1985 to 2010, designed by Paul Rand • Illustration — George Parmly Day, founder of the Yale University Press

Yale University Press was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and his brother Clarence Day. It issued its first book, The Beginnings of Gospel Story by Benjamin Wisner Bacon, in 1909, and moved from a small office in New York City to New Haven in 1910. From 1918 to 1948, its books were designed under the printer Carl Purington Rollins. Among the press's early series were The Chronicles of America, The Yale Shakespeare (1918–1929) and the Yale Series of Younger Poets, launched in 1919.

Since its inception in 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition has published the first collection of poetry by new poets. The first winner was Howard Buck.

Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre jointly sponsor the Yale Drama Series, a playwriting competition. The winner of the annual competition is awarded the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Rep. The Yale Drama Series and David C. Horn Prize are funded by the David Charles Horn Foundation.

In 2007, Yale University Press acquired the Anchor Bible Series, a collection of more than 115 volumes of biblical scholarship, from the Doubleday Publishing Group. New and backlist titles are now published under the Anchor Yale Bible Series name.

Yale University Press is publishing the Future of American Democracy Series, which "aims to examine, sustain, and renew the historic vision of American democracy in a series of books by some of America's foremost thinkers", in partnership with the Future of American Democracy Foundation.

The Lamar Series in Western History (formerly the Yale Western Americana series) was established in 1962 to publish works that enhance the understanding of human affairs in the American West and contribute to a wider understanding of why the West matters in the political, social, and cultural life of America.

On September 22, 2000, Yale University Press announced a new Yale Nota Bene imprint that would "feature reprints of best-selling and classic Yale Press titles encompassing works of history, religion, science, current affairs, reference and biography, in addition to fiction, poetry and drama."

Other Yale University Press series include: • The Annotated Shakespeare, begun in 2003, presenting individual plays with on-page annotations by Burton Raffel. • Ancient Lives, short biographies of figures from the ancient world. • Black Lives, short biographies of individuals of African descent. • Jewish Lives, launched in 2010 with the Leon D. Black Foundation, publishing biographies of Jewish figures. • The Margellos World Republic of Letters, devoted to literature in translation. • The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, a scholarly edition of Franklin's writings sponsored jointly with the American Philosophical Society. • The Works of Jonathan Edwards, a scholarly edition completed in 26 volumes. The press also awards the biennial Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, sponsored with The Yale Review, for a book-length work of nonfiction by a writer who has not previously published one.

In 1963, the Press published a revised edition of Ludwig von Mises's Human Action. In the May 5, 1964 issue of National Review, Henry Hazlitt wrote the story "Mangling a Masterpiece", accusing Yale University Press of intentionally typesetting the new edition in an amateurish fashion, due to the Press's differing ideological beliefs.

In August 2009, officials at the Press ignited a controversy when they decided to expunge reproductions of the cartoons involved in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, along with all other images of Muhammad, from a scholarly book entitled The Cartoons that Shook the World, by professor Jytte Klausen.

Yale University Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.