Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press was founded in 1950 in the post-war expansion of the university under President Herman B Wells, with Bernard Perry as its first director; the first book appeared in March 1951 and five more followed that year.¹ It took full membership of the Association of American University Presses in 1952 and published more than 200 titles in its first decade.¹ The list is humanities and social sciences — African and African American studies, Jewish and Holocaust studies, Middle Eastern and Eastern European studies, folklore, film, music, philosophy and religion — running to roughly seventy new books and thirty-eight journals a year against a backlist of some 2,000 titles.¹ Its bestseller is Rolfe Humphries's 1955 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, past half a million copies.¹ Its significance for this catalogue is Howard and Edna Hong's seven-volume edition of Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, published 1967-78.