A small catalog. A careful one.
University Extension Press was founded in 1989 as a small independent house publishing thoughtful nonfiction — memoir, business, family history, and work that sits in the open spaces between them. Over more than three decades we have kept our catalog deliberately modest, choosing books we believed deserved the reader's attention rather than chasing the ones the market demanded.
We publish the work of Stephen Taylor — a series of books under the umbrella title The Circuitous Path:, beginning with a memoir of love and entrepreneurship and extending into essays on marriage, grief, reinvention, and the curious ways a life is assembled. We publish the genealogy and family history work of Donald Taylor — a four-volume series, Genealogical Studies of Early American Families, drawing on the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. And we keep a selection of earlier titles and newsletters in print as a backlist for readers who find their way to them.
Our name carries a quiet reference to the idea of extension — extending good thinking past the classroom, past the conference room, past the academy, and into the kind of books that a person reads once and then returns to. We are, to be clear, an independent press. Not an academic press. Not a vanity imprint. A small publishing house run with care.
