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Dan Wakefield, Indiana Writer of All Trades, Dies at 91

‘VERY, VERY BRAVE’

A literary pilgrim, Wakefield was a novelist, memoirist, screenwriter, and journalist who reported on the Emmett Till murder trial and the Vietnam War.

AJ McDougall
AJ McDougall 

Breaking News Reporter

A photo illustration of author Dan Wakefield.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/AP
AJ McDougall

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