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Yale University Press was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day. It became a formal department of Yale University in 1961 but has remained financially and operationally autonomous.
Yale University Press publishes approximately 300 new hardcover and 150 new paperback books annually. Its backlist holds around 5,000 books in print.
Books published by Yale University Press have won eight Pulitzer Prizes. The Press has also received five National Book Awards and two National Book Critics Circle Awards.
The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition has published the debut poetry collection of new poets since 1919. The first winner was Howard Buck, making it one of the longest-running poetry competitions in the United States.
In August 2009, Yale University Press removed all images of Muhammad, including the Jyllands-Posten cartoons, from a scholarly book by professor Jytte Klausen titled The Cartoons that Shook the World. Critics described the decision as self-censorship inside a work analyzing free expression.
The Yale Drama Series is a playwriting competition jointly sponsored by Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre. The annual winner receives the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their manuscript by the Press, and a staged reading at Yale Rep.