Description Beacon Press is a non-profit publisher of nonfiction and fiction books, many of which have a focus on subjects such as diversity, independence, and religion. The company has published titles that include James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Sun and Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man. Its books are distributed in the US by Houghton Mifflin Company. The publisher is a division of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Beacon Press was established in 1854.