Dan Wakefield, the novelist and journalist who wrote about diverse topics including his journey with spirituality and the civil rights movement, died Wednesday at 91 years old.
Dan Wakefield, a novelist and journalist who wrote about diverse topics including his journey with spirituality and the civil rights movement, died Wednesday at 91. His death was confirmed by Will Higgins, who hosted a public radio show with Wakefield in 2016 and 2017, according to news reports. Wakefield's health started to decline last year following a stroke. Wakefield graduated in 1955 from Columbia University with an English degree.
His time in Hollywood included creating the short-lived 1977-78 NBC series 'James at 15.' He made headlines after walking out, just a few months after the show premiered, after NBC removed a reference in a script to birth-control pills. He didn't love Hollywood. “All you do is take meetings,' he said. 'When you write a novel, you don’t have to meet even the publisher. But when you sell an idea out here, you have to sell yourself. It’s agonizing.
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