Eric Klopfer, Publishing Director, Licensing, leads the entertainment-licensing initiative for the Clarkson Potter and Ten Speed Press imprints at Crown Publishing Group. He works closely with the publisher and the editorial and design teams to build existing licensing relationships as well as to identify and develop new and exciting partnerships. Before coming to Crown in 2023, Eric managed the illustrated entertainment list for the adult division of Abrams, where he worked since 2007, as Editorial Director, Entertainment. He acquired illustrated and narrative nonfiction titles across multiple categories, including film, television, animation, and gaming, and he edited several bestselling entertainment titles, among them The Wes Anderson Collection and The Sopranos Sessions. Eric has long-standing relationships with evergreen licensors including Hasbro, Paramount, and Marvel, and he is primarily interested in behind-the-scenes and oral-history books, biography, and/or works of cultural criticism covering contemporary and historic cinema, television, animation, gaming, and pop culture.