Short answers, pulled from the story.
Stanford University Press was founded in 1892 when the first work of scholarship to be published under the Stanford name appeared with the designation No. 1. The first use of the imprint Stanford University Press occurred in 1895 with The Story of the Innumerable Company by President Jordan.
Stanford University Press moved to its current location in Redwood City in 2012. The press became a division of the Stanford University Libraries in 1999 before relocating from its previous location adjacent to the Stanford campus.
Stanford University Press hired William Hawley Davis, Professor of English, as the inaugural general editor in 1925. The first press director, Donald P. Bean, was appointed in 1945.
Stanford University Press has won the Bancroft Prize, the Bryce Wood Book Award, the Albert J. Beveridge Award, the Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, and the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. The press also received the Gold Medal, California Book Awards, and the National Jewish Book Award.
In 1933, David Lamson, a sales manager at Stanford University Press, was accused of murdering his wife, Allene, at their home on the Stanford campus. Lamson was ultimately released after being tried four times.