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Daniel Halpern, publisher and president of Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, has won the Center for Fiction's Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction, which "recognizes an editor, publisher or agent who over the course of his or her career has discovered, nurtured, and championed writers of fiction in the United States." The award will be presented December 8 at the Center's Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner in New York City.
Halpern was born in Syracuse, N.Y., grew up in Los Angeles and Seattle, and has lived in Tangier, Morocco, New York City and Princeton. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Something Shining. For 25 years, Halpern edited the international literary magazine Antaeus, which he founded in Tangier with Paul Bowles. From 1975 to 1995 he taught in the graduate writing program of Columbia University, which he chaired for many years. He has also taught at The New School for Social Research and Princeton University. And in 1978, with James A. Michener, he founded the National Poetry Series, which oversees the publication of five books of poetry every year.
Among the authors he has worked with at both Ecco and Antaeus are Cormac McCarthy, Louise Gluck, Richard Ford, Anthony Bourdain, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Tom Robbins, Jorie Graham, Philipp Meyer, Leonard Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, John Fowles, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, Patti Smith, Tobias Wolff, Charles Simic, Italo Calvino, Paul Bowles, Pete Dexter, Gay Talese, Erica Jong, Vendela Vida, T.C. Boyle, Jorge Luis Borges, John Ashbery, William Burroughs, William T. Vollmann, Tennessee Williams, Nell Freudenberger, Mark Strand, Natasha Trethewey and many others.
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