Parent company | Unitarian Universalist Association |
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Founded | 1854 |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Boston |
Distribution | Penguin Random House Publisher Services (worldwide) Publishers Group UK (UK)[1] |
Key people | Gayatri Patnaik, director |
Official website | www |
Beacon Press is an American left-wing[2] non-profit book publisher. Founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association, it is currently a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association.[3] It is known for publishing authors such as James Baldwin, Mary Oliver, Martin Luther King Jr., and Viktor Frankl, as well as The Pentagon Papers.
Among left-wing publishers have been stalwarts like Beacon Press