The Bevington Fund helps publish work by emerging scholars and is used in support of first books, particularly in the humanities. The fund was established in 2006 with a $100,000 gift by David and Peggy Bevington, which has been augmented by students, friends, and a foundation. David Bevington (1931–2019) was the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and a leading authority on English Renaissance literature. Peggy was for nearly three decades a teacher in the nursery school at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.