Luke Pontifell

For 35 years, Thornwillow Press has been a printer and publisher of handmade limited-edition books. We are We are currently at work in the bindery on : Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Thornwillow Press was founded in 1985 by Luke Ives Pontifell when he was 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. We have published work by some of the world’s leading writers, poets, and artists— from Jane Austen to Jill Lepore, from Walter Cronkite to Virginia Woolf, from John Updike to Barack Obama. Our books are in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian Institution, The Metropolitan Museum, the Vatican, and The White House, among many others.