Dan Wakefield Dies: Writer Who Created Controversial ‘James At 15’ Series And Resigned Over Network Interference Was 91

Dan Wakefield, a prolific author and journalist who made television history when he created and wrote the controversial late-1970s drama James at 15 only to resign when NBC executives bristled over an episode’s depiction of teenage sexuality, died yesterday at a hospice facility in Miami. He was 91, and had been in declining health in […]