[6] Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty.

[citation needed] The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.

[7] HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the Harvard Guide to American History.

Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act by Joe Roman, published in 2011,[9] received the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.

[10] Harvard University Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.