Dan Wakefield (born 1932) is an
American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best-selling novels,
Going All the Way (1970) and
Starting Over (1973) were made into feature films. Amongst his other notable works include
Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem (1959), the pioneering survey of
Spanish Harlem, a
Puerto Rican settlement in
New York and
New York in the Fifties (1992), based on the
Beat Generation in
Greenwich Village, which led to a documentary film in 2001.