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 American 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,

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, and

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. In 2010, LSU Press merged with '' The Southern Review'', LSU's

literary magazine A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...

, and the company now oversees the operations of this publication.

Notable publications and awards

'' A Confederacy of Dunces'' by John Kennedy Toole was published in 1980 and won the 1981

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during ...

. 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's 2018 ''The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism'' won the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award from the American Library Association Library History Round Table.

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