Daniel Halpern, Publisher and President of Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, has earned the 2015 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.
The award is given out by The Center for Fiction to either an editor, publisher, or agent that has nurtured and championed fiction writers in the United States. The award honors Maxwell E. Perkins, of Scribner, one of the great American editors who worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, and Ernest Hemingway, among others.
Halpern has had a long career supporting fiction, including editing the international literary magazine Antaeus, which he founded in Tangier with Paul Bowles. Halpern will receive the award at the Center’s December 8 Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner in New York.
“It is an honor to be recognized for doing what makes you happiest – for me, publishing fiction by some of the finest writers an editor (and reader) could imagine working with,” he stated of the honor. “But to be recognized by The Center for Fiction – an organization that supports and celebrates the art of fiction in so many important ways – is the true honor.”