Beacon Press

Beacon Press
Parent companyUnitarian Universalist Association
Founded1854 (1854)
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBoston
DistributionPenguin Random House Publisher Services (worldwide)
Publishers Group UK (UK)[1]
Key peopleGayatri Patnaik, director
Official websitewww.beacon.org

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.

  1. ^ Publishers Group UK – Publishers
  2. ^ Bisbort, Alan (2008). Media Scandals. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-34766-5. Among left-wing publishers have been stalwarts like Beacon Press
  3. ^ "Beacon Press Celebrates 150 Years of Publishing". UU World: The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association. September–October 2004. Retrieved 2007-09-26.