Dan Halpern, author, editor, and publisher of Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins

Dan Halpern, publisher and President of Ecco, and winner of the 2015 Maxwell Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction, talks about his life’s twists and turns – stories about how his college roommate, a Hemmingway lookalike, got him interested in poetry, how Paul Bowles invited him to Morocco and asked him to start a literary magazine, and how luck, optimism and a little bit of obsessiveness played a role in his great and varied accomplishments.