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by Dan Wakefield

20th centuryAmerican AuthorsAuthors, AmericanBiographyReligion
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Dan Wakefield was a successful writer of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays when he awoke to a private life that was disintegrating in alcohol, depression, and isolation. He fled Hollywood for Boston where he reclaimed a faith he had thought he was too sophisticated to embrace. In this moving memoir, Wakefield returns to his religious roots and his early life: his Indiana boyhood, his tumultuous student days, and his growth as a writer.

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20th centuryAmerican AuthorsAuthors, AmericanBiographyReligionUnitarian Universalists

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Setting

United States20th century

About the author

Dan Wakefield

1932 – 2024

American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter

Author

Dan Wakefield

Pages

250

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

5

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Books

ISBN

9780140254938

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