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Dan Wakefield (May 21, 1932 – March 13, 2024) was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. His novel Going All the Way (1970) was made into a feature film with Wakefield also writing the screenplay for Going All the Way His novel Starting Over (1973), was made into feature film, Starting Over (1979). 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".