Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Press

LSU Press was first organized in 1931 to publish a modest series of graduate studies and became an autonomous department of the university in 1935 as a nonprofit book publisher dedicated to the publication of scholarly, general interest, and regional books. It is the only university press to have won a Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and poetry and is perhaps most widely recognized as the original publisher of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980). Through the years, its books have earned many prestigious honors, including a total of four Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Booker Prize, and numerous others. LSU Press also publishes The Southern Review (1935-1942, 1965- ), the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lecture Series (1937- ), and the History of the South series with the George W. Littlefield Fund for Southern History (1938- ).

From the description of Louisiana State University photograph collection. LSU Press, 1926-2001 (bulk 1952-2001). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 237188591