Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. 

, Yale University Press published approximately 300 new hardcover and 150 new paperback books annually and has more than 6,000 books in print. Its books have won five National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards and eight Pulitzer Prizes. 

The press co-owns the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Harvard University Press. 

Since its inception in 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition has published the first collection of poetry by new poets. The first winner was Howard Buck; the 2011 winner was Katherine Larson. 

Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre jointly sponsor the Yale Drama Series, a playwriting competition. The winner of the annual competition is awarded the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Rep. The Yale Drama Series and David C. Horn Prize are funded by the David Charles Horn Foundation. 

In 2007, Yale University Press acquired the Anchor Bible Series, a collection of more than 115 volumes of biblical scholarship, from the Doubleday Publishing Group. New and backlist titles are now published under the Anchor Yale Bible Series name. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was the year of Yale University Press's founding?
2. When did Yale University Press get established?
3. In what year did Yale University Press first appear?
Q2:
1. Who created Yale University Press?
2. Who was Yale University Press founded by?
3. Who was the founder of Yale University Press?
Q3:
1. Was Yale University Press always operated from within yale University?
2. Was it always Yale University itself that operated Yale University Press?
3. Has Yale University been the sole distributor of Yale University Press?
