Louisiana State University Press
Key people | Alisa Plant, director |
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Publication types | books, magazines |
Official website | www |
The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a
LSU Press publishes approximately 70 new books each year and has a backlist of over 2000 titles. Primary fields of publication include southern history,
Domestic distribution for the press is currently provided by the University of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services.[1]
Notable publications and awards
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole was published in 1980 and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[4]
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).[5]
Lisel Mueller's 1981 The Need to Hold Still won the National Book Award for Poetry that year.[6]
Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand's 2018 The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism won the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award from the American Library Association Library History Round Table. [7]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Client Publishers". Longleaf Services. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ "Our Publishers | Scholarly Books". Archived from the original on 2017-12-03. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
- ^ "LSU Gold Between the Lines". Louisiana State University.
- ^ "Fiction". The Pulitzer Prizes.
- ^ "Poetry". The Pulitzer Prizes.
- ^ "NBA Poetry Winners". The National Book Award Foundation.
- ^ "Wayne and Shirley Wiegand receive 2019 Gleason book award for history of integration of Southern public libraries | News and Press Center".