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Dan Wakefield (May 21, 1932 – March 13, 2024) was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter.
His novels Going All the Way (1970) and Starting Over (1973), were made into feature films with Wakefield also writing the screenplay for Going All the Way
Wakefield created the NBC prime time television series James at 15 (1977–78) and was story editor of the series (1977).
His other notable works include Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem (1959), a pioneering journalistic account of a Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York, and the memoir New York in the Fifties (2001), produced as a documentary film by Betsy Blankenbaker. His memoir, Returning: A Spiritual Journey (1988), was called by Bill Moyers "one of the most important memoirs of the spirit I have ever read". He edited and wrote the Introduction to Kurt Vonnegut Letters (2012). Wakefield received The Bernard DeVoto Fellowship at The Bread Loaf Writer Conference in 1958, a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism (1963–64) and a Rockefeller Grant in Writing, 1968.
Dan Wakefield was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, where his family lived in the Broad Ripple neighborhood.
Wakefield went to Public School #80 and Shortridge High School, where he began his writing career as a sports columnist for the school newspaper, The Shortridge Daily Echo, and was the school's sports correspondent for The Indianapolis Star. He later became friends with fellow author Kurt Vonnegut, who attended Shortridge High School and worked on the same school paper 10 years before Wakefield. He worked summers during college in The Star sports department and as a general assignment reporter for The Grand Rapids Press.
Wakefield left Indianapolis in 1952 for New York City, where he graduated from Columbia College, with a B.A. with Honors in English, after having studied with the literary critics Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, as well as the sociologist C. Wright Mills.
After college, Wakefield worked as a reporter at The Princeton Packet, New Jersey's oldest weekly, which he later left to become a research assistant for the sociologist C. Wright Mills, his professor at Columbia. His research duties left him time to begin his career as a freelance journalist, covering the Emmett Till murder trial in Mississippi for The Nation magazine. He continued to write for The Nation from Israel in 1956, becoming a staff writer for the magazine on his return the same year. He also published in periodicals such as Dissent, Commonweal, Commentary, New World Writing, Harpers, Esquire, The Atlantic, The Yoga Journal, GQ and TV Guide.
Dan Wakefield
Dan Wakefield (May 21, 1932 – March 13, 2024) was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter.
His novels Going All the Way (1970) and Starting Over (1973), were made into feature films with Wakefield also writing the screenplay for Going All the Way
Wakefield created the NBC prime time television series James at 15 (1977–78) and was story editor of the series (1977).
His other notable works include Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem (1959), a pioneering journalistic account of a Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York, and the memoir New York in the Fifties (2001), produced as a documentary film by Betsy Blankenbaker. His memoir, Returning: A Spiritual Journey (1988), was called by Bill Moyers "one of the most important memoirs of the spirit I have ever read". He edited and wrote the Introduction to Kurt Vonnegut Letters (2012). Wakefield received The Bernard DeVoto Fellowship at The Bread Loaf Writer Conference in 1958, a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism (1963–64) and a Rockefeller Grant in Writing, 1968.
Dan Wakefield was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, where his family lived in the Broad Ripple neighborhood.
Wakefield went to Public School #80 and Shortridge High School, where he began his writing career as a sports columnist for the school newspaper, The Shortridge Daily Echo, and was the school's sports correspondent for The Indianapolis Star. He later became friends with fellow author Kurt Vonnegut, who attended Shortridge High School and worked on the same school paper 10 years before Wakefield. He worked summers during college in The Star sports department and as a general assignment reporter for The Grand Rapids Press.
Wakefield left Indianapolis in 1952 for New York City, where he graduated from Columbia College, with a B.A. with Honors in English, after having studied with the literary critics Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, as well as the sociologist C. Wright Mills.
After college, Wakefield worked as a reporter at The Princeton Packet, New Jersey's oldest weekly, which he later left to become a research assistant for the sociologist C. Wright Mills, his professor at Columbia. His research duties left him time to begin his career as a freelance journalist, covering the Emmett Till murder trial in Mississippi for The Nation magazine. He continued to write for The Nation from Israel in 1956, becoming a staff writer for the magazine on his return the same year. He also published in periodicals such as Dissent, Commonweal, Commentary, New World Writing, Harpers, Esquire, The Atlantic, The Yoga Journal, GQ and TV Guide.