Thornwillow Press

Thornwillow Press was founded in 1985 by Luke Ives Pontifell, when he was just 16. During college he ran the press from his Harvard dorm room and the barn at his parents’ 18th century farm in Western Massachusetts. Over the years, Thornwillow has grown to become one of the preeminent fine presses in the world. Thornwillow has published the original works of John Updike, President Barack Obama, James Merrill, and more. Thornwillow publications can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Morgan Library, the Vatican, and the Bodleian Library at Oxford, among many others.