The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a

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Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...

. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the

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. LSU Press publishes approximately 70 new books each year and has a backlist of over 2000 titles. Primary fields of publication include southern history, southern literary studies, Louisiana and the Gulf South, the

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and military history, roots music, southern culture, environmental studies, European history,

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, and

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. In 2010, LSU Press merged with '' The Southern Review'', LSU's literary magazine, and the company now oversees the operations of this publication. Domestic distribution for the press is currently provided by the

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's Longleaf Services.

Notable publications and awards

A Confederacy of Dunces ''A Confederacy of Dunces'' is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) ...

'' by

John Kennedy Toole John Kennedy Toole (; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, '' A Confederacy of Dunces'', won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. At 16 in 1954, Toole ...

was published in 1980 and won the 1981

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. Three titles have won the

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award came five years after the first Pulitzers were awarded in other categories; Joseph Pulitzer's will had not ment ...

: ''The Flying Change'' by

Henry S. Taylor Henry Splawn Taylor (June 21, 1942 - October 13, 2024) was an American poet, academic, and translator. The author of more than 15 books of poems, translation, and nonfiction, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1986. Early life and educat ...

(1986), ''Alive Together: New and Selected Poems'' by

Lisel Mueller Lisel Mueller (born Elisabeth Neumann, February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020) was a German-born American poet, translator and academic teacher. Her family fled the Nazi regime, and she arrived in the U.S. in 1939 at the age of 15. She worked as a ...

(1997), and ''Late Wife'' by Claudia Emerson (2006). Lisel Mueller's 1981 ''The Need to Hold Still'' won the National Book Award for Poetry that year. Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand- ''The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism'' won the 2019 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award from the Library History Round Table. Kelby Ouchley received the

John Burroughs Medal The John Burroughs Medal, named for nature writer John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural hist ...

for natural history writing in 2023 for ''Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist's Memoir of Place''. Gregg Andrews' ''Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 ''published in 2023 won the category of U.S. Maritime History at the

John Lyman Book Awards The John Lyman Book Awards are given annually by the North American Society for Oceanic History to recognise excellence in published books making a major contribution to the study and understanding of maritime and naval history. They are named aft ...

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