A recipient of a Neiman Fellowship in Journalism, Dan Wakefield has also been awarded 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.
Going All The Way, and Starting Over were produced into feature films. Wakefield is also the author of the non-fiction book New York in the 50s, a memoir on which a documentary film has been produced. New York in the 50s was recently re-published in paperback.