The University of Minnesota Press will celebrate its 90th anniversary at the North Shore Readers and Writers Festival at the Grand Marais Art Colony at 4 p.m. Nov. 5. The event is free and open to the public.
Founded in 1925, the Minnesota Press publishes books for readers of all ages — from children and young adults to scholars and students to everyday booklovers looking for the next great novel, cookbook, history, or memoir.
The University of Minnesota Press is a sponsor of the festival, which is in its first year. Many of the festival’s participating authors and its keynote speaker, Lorna Landvik, have published books with the University of Minnesota Press.
The Press has much to celebrate in addition to its 90-year legacy of regional and scholarly publishing. Earlier this year, pioneering rock music critic Ellen Willis won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for her posthumous essay compilation The Essential Ellen Willis. And in April the Press, in partnership with the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, was awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch Manifold Scholarship, a networked publishing platform that will track the development of a scholarly manuscript in real time.
The University of Minnesota Press is a self-supporting unit of the University of Minnesota. Ninety-five percent of its operating funds come from sales and the generosity of those who share the Press’s passion for connecting readers to the Upper Midwest and to groundbreaking writing and scholarship.
For more information about the event, contact Heather Skinner at (612) 627-1932.
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