Beacon Press

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Beacon Press, founded in 1854 and a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association, operates as a book publisher in the United States of America. It publishes both fiction and non-fiction, with emphasis on social justice issues, including anti-racism, anti-oppression, and gay/lesbian/gender studies.

In 1971, it published the "Senator Gravel edition" of The Pentagon Papers for the first time in book form, when no other publisher was willing to risk publishing such controversial material. Other well-known books from Beacon Press have included Race Matters by Cornel West, Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, and Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly.

In 1993 Beacon was voted "Trade Publisher of the Year" by the Literary Market Place. Beacon Press’s offices are located at 41 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Mass.