The Deerfield Academy Press

The Deerfield Academy Press was founded in May 1997 with the publication of Deerfield 1797—1997: A Pictorial History of the Academy, the first written history of the school. The mission of the Press is to stimulate and nurture interest in creative and academic writing and to provide a formal outlet for student writings in English, history, and foreign languages.

  • Deerfield 1797-1997: A Pictorial History of the Academy
  • Andrea and Robert Moorhead, editors
  • The Transcendent Mirror: A Bicentennial Anthology for Deerfield. Janet W. B. Rogers and Eric Widmer, editors
  • A Sense of Place, Eric Widmer
  • The Path to Grantchester: Summer Letters from the English Department Faculty
  • Voices from the Valley: Deerfield Teachers Reflect
  • The Hearth: A Deerfield Academy Tradition, Andrea Moorhead
  • Deerfield Remembers: A Festschrift for Frank Learoyd Boyden, 1902-2002

The Art & Poetry Series

Includes poetry broadsides, exhibition catalogues, faculty poetry, and special student projects:

  • Hodo: A Celebration of the Life & Work of Daniel Hodermarsky
  • Donald C. Greason 1897—1981: An Exhibition of Drawings from the collection of Gillett Griffin
  • The Open Gate: Four Deerfield Poets: Peter Fallon, Ann Haffey Quinn, John Palmer, Andrea Moorhead
  • tiny trees and people, Melissa Warnke ’04
  • new poems, Joshua Krugman ’08
  • What the Thunder Said, Nina Shevzov-Zebrun ’12 and Anna Gonzales ’12
  • Remembering Jim Salem: Master Potter, Jester, Adventurer

The Academy Series

Features two annual publications of student work:

  • The Little Brown House Review – A Journal of Writing by Students of English at Deerfield Academy
  • The Buttonball Papers: The Humanities Journal of Deerfield Academy
  • Invisible Mendings: Senior Meditations, 1996-2007

All publications are available at Hitchcock House.






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