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Book and Periodical PublishingMassachusetts, United States51-200 Employees
Beacon Press is an independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1854. Its mission emphasizes the inherent worth of every person and seeks justice, equity, conscience, democratic participation, and the central role of literature and the arts in democratic life. The press has published influential works by figures such as James Baldwin, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baker Miller, and Mary Daly. In 1971 it released the five-volume edition of The Pentagon Papers, prompting a call from then-president Richard Nixon that culminated in a Supreme Court case. A notable recent development is the December 2024 launch of a full-color graphic novel edition of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States.