Princeton University Press

The Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.

Pulitzer Prizes

Six books from the Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes.

• Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan (1957)
• Banks and Politics in America From the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond (1958)
• Between War and Peace by Herbert Feis (1961)
• Washington, Village and Capital by Constance McLaughlin Green (1963)
• The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (1965)
• Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia (1989)

Papers projects

Multi-volume historical documents projects undertaken by the Press include

• The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
• The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (sixty nine volumes)
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (begun in 1905 while Woodrow Wilson was president of the University)

Bollingen Series

The Princeton University Press Bollingen Series had its beginnings in the Bollingen Foundation, a 1943 project of Paul Mellon's Old Dominion Foundation. From 1945, the foundation had independent status, publishing and providing fellowships and grants in several areas of study including archaeology, poetry, and psychology. The Bollingen Series was given to the university in 1969.

Recent publications

• Making Democracy work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti (1994)
• The History and Geography of Human Genes by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza (1994)
• T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez (1997)
• Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller (a New York Times bestseller) (2000)
• The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok (2000)
• The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose (2000)
• On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt (a New York Times bestseller) (2005)
• Sharks of the World by Leonard Compagno and Sarah Fowler with illustrations by Marc Dando. Princeton Field Guide series. (2005)
• The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole by Fulvio Melia (2007)

Selected titles

• The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein (1922)
• Atomic Energy for Military Purposes by Henry DeWolf Smyth (1945)
• How to Solve It by George Polya (1945)
• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1945)
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (1949)
• The Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching, Bollingen Series XIX. First copyright 1950, 27th printing 1997.
• Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye (1957)
• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty (1979)
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman (1985)

External links

• A History of Princeton University Press (2002)
• Bollingen Series
• Interview in early 2007 with Sam Elworthy, assistant press director, editor-in-chief (biology) and executive editor of the Princeton University Press Papers Projects.