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Louisiana State University Press

Academic publisher

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image	Image:New_LSU_Press_Logo,_Introduced_in_2015.jpg
image_size	200px
founded
country	United States
headquarters	Baton Rouge, Louisiana
distribution	Longleaf Services (US)
keypeople	Alisa Plant, director
publications	books, magazines
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The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the Association of University Presses.

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 American Civil War and military history, roots music, southern culture, environmental studies, European history, foodways, poetry, fiction, media studies, and landscape architecture. 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 University of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services.

Notable publications and awards

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole was published in 1980 and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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).

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 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.

References

"Our Publishers {{!}} Scholarly Books".
"LSU Gold Between the Lines". [[Louisiana State University]].
"Client Publishers". [[University of North Carolina Press.
"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".

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