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Congratulations to Daniel Halpern, who is joining Knopf as executive editor, effective July 1. He founded Ecco in 1971 and was president and publisher of the imprint until becoming editor-at-large last year. He is also founder (with Paul Bowles) of the literary magazine Antaeus, which he edited for 25 years, and the author of nine poetry collections and two books about food. He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poets & Writers Editor's Award and the Center for Fiction's Medal for Editorial Excellence (formerly the Maxwell E. Perkins Award).
Among the writers, poets and chefs he has published are Joyce Carol Oates, John Fowles, Amy Tan, Annie Dillard, Vendela Vida, Russell Banks, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Natasha Trethewey, Charles Frazier, Dennis Lehane, Robert Hass, Simone de Beauvoir, Charles Simic, Louise Glück, Jackie Robinson, Deborah Eisenberg, John Ashbery, Anthony Bourdain, Czeslaw Milosz, Simon Schama, T.C. Boyle, Elaine Pagels, Ferran Adrià, José Andrés, April Bloomfield, Daniel Boulud, Nigella Lawson, Wylie Dufresne and Padma Lakshmi.