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