Dan Wakefield is an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best-selling novels, Going All the Way and Starting Over were made into feature films. Amongst his other notable works include Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem, the pioneering survey of Spanish Harlem, a Puerto Rican settlement in New York and New York in the Fifties, based on the Beat Generation in Greenwich Village, which led to a documentary film in 2001. Presently, he is Writer in Residence at Florida International University in Miami. 

May 21st, 1932 in Indianapolis  /  Died:   Mar 13th, 2024 - aged 91