Elizabethtown College Hosts Dan Wakefield, Screewriter and Novelist February 9 Through 11

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (02/03/2010)(readMedia)-- Dan Wakefield, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar, will hold a series of lectures, discussions and film showings at Elizabethtown College, Feb. 9 through 11.

Wakefield is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter, best known for his novels-turned-screenplays, "Going All the Way" and "Starting Over." He has been honored with the Neiman Fellowship in Journalism, 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. He has taught writing classes at Boston University, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Emerson College, and The Iowa Writers Workshop, and is currently Writer in Residence at Florida International University in Miami. Wakefield graduated from Columbia University in 1955 and has worked with national and local newspapers and magazines. He also created NBC's "James at 15" television series in 1977.

The first of four events featuring Dan Wakefield is, "Spirituality and the Personal Memoir." The panel discussion, sponsored by the Dean of Faculty's Office, includes Wakefield; Jesse Waters, visiting assistant professor of English; Jeffery Long, department chair and associate professor of religious studies; and Keith Beasley-Topliffe, a minister and writer from Harrisburg, Pa. The panel discussion, open to the public, takes place at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the Brinser Lecture Room of Elizabethtown College's Steinman Center.

At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, the Dean of Faculty's Office sponsors "Fiction to Film: Making the Move from Art to Art." Wakefield's lecture, which is open to the public, takes place in the Brinser Lecture Room of the Steinman Center.

The third event in the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar series is "Beats of a New Culture: How the Writers and Artists of the 1950s Altered America." Sponsored by the Dean of Faculty's Office, it will include a lecture by Wakefield. This event, open to the public, takes place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in Musser Auditorium of Leffler Chapel and Performance Center.

The final event for the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar series is a showing of the film, "New York in The Fifties: A Film with Writers, Artists and Musicians of the Era." The program is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty's Office and includes material from Robert Redford, Joan Didion, Calvin Trillin and James Baldwin. The film, open to the public, will be shown at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in Gibble Auditorium. A question-and-answer session follows the film. Contact Jesse Waters at 717-361-3762.

Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed college with degrees in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education. The hallmarks of an Elizabethtown education are academic rigor, high expectations and intellectual curiosity. Our faculty members are teacher-scholars, pursuing their academic areas of expertise while sharing that expertise with students.

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