Beacon Press

Beacon Press was founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association, it is currently a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association. It is a Boston based mission driven non-profit book publisher known for publishing authors such as James Baldwin, Mary Oliver, Martin Luther King Jr., and Viktor Frankl, as well as The Pentagon Papers.

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