Northwestern University Press
Northwestern University Press is a university publisher and part of Northwestern University . The publishing house is headquartered in Evanston , Illinois , USA .
The publishing house was founded in 1893 and initially specialized in the publication of legal journals and textbooks. Today he publishes a wide variety of academic papers, textbooks and fiction books on a wide range of topics.
Since 1963 the publisher has published the book Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques by Viola Spolin , a founder of improvisational acting. The work, which was published in three editions, is one of the standard works for improvisational theater . In the 1960s, the publisher also began to publish a full edition of the works of Herman Melville in conjunction with the Modern Language Association .
In the 1990s, the publisher was the first to publish works by the Hungarian author Imre Kertész , who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.