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Princeton University Press was founded in 1905 by Whitney Darrow, a recent Princeton graduate. Darrow received initial funding from Charles Scribner II, a Princeton trustee and partner in the New York publishing house Charles Scribner's Sons.
The first book published by Princeton University Press was a new edition of Lectures on Moral Philosophy by John Witherspoon, released in 1912. This came two years after the press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910.
Seven Princeton University Press books have won Pulitzer Prizes. The first was Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan in 1957, and the most recent was To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause by Benjamin Nathans in 2024.
Christie Henry became the ninth director of Princeton University Press in 2017, and was the first woman to hold the position. Under her leadership the press opened a Beijing office, launched Princeton Audio, and expanded into audiobooks, a speakers' bureau, and representation of other publishers' titles in China.
The Bollingen Series is a collection of roughly 275 books in psychology, mythology, archaeology, art history, religion, and literature, donated to Princeton University Press by Paul Mellon in 1969. It originated with the Bollingen Foundation, established in 1943, and includes the collected works of C. G. Jung, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Paul Valéry. A full reissuing of the series began in 2024.
The Princeton Legacy Library, launched in 2012, uses print-on-demand technology to make more than 2,700 previously out-of-print Princeton University Press titles available again. The initiative allows the press to keep its full backlist accessible without maintaining traditional print inventory.