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Dan Wakefield
09/08/1997
Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield, Bruce Jay Friedman
A discussion about adapting novels for film
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A conversation about the adaptation of novels into screenplays with Bruce Jay Friedman, author of "The Lonely Guy", Kurt Vonnegut, writer of "Timequake" and Dan Wakefield, writer of "Going all the Way".
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Dan Wakefield
Dan Wakefield

Dan Wakefield is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter whose best-selling novels 'Going All The Way' and 'Starting Over' were produced as feature films, and he created the NBC prime time TV series 'James at 15'.

Wakefield has been the recipient of a Neiman Fellowship in Journalism, the Bernard DeVoto Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Rockefeller Grant for Creative Writing, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught in the writing programs at Boston University, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Emerson College, The Iowa Writers Workshop, and is presently Writer in Residence at Florida International University in Miami.

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