Short answers, pulled from the story.
University of California Press was founded in 1893, twenty-five years after the University of California itself was established in 1868. Its original mission was to publish scholarly and scientific works by UC faculty.
University of California Press has its administrative office in downtown Oakland, California. It also maintains an editorial branch in Los Angeles, a sales office in New York City, and marketing offices in Great Britain, Asia, Australia, and Latin America.
UC Press publishes more than 250 new books annually, along with nearly four dozen multi-issue journals. It keeps approximately 4,000 book titles in print at any given time.
UC Press commissioned the typeface University of California Old Style from type designer Frederic Goudy between 1936 and 1938. The press no longer always uses the design.
Luminos is UC Press's open access monograph program, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared. It applies the same standards of selection, peer review, production, and marketing as the press's traditional book publishing program.
The California Fiction series ran from 1996 to 2001, reprinting novels chosen for their literary merit and their illumination of California history and culture. The series included works by Ursula K. Le Guin, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, and Cynthia Kadohata, among others.