Donald Earl Wetzel

Donald Earl Wetzel was an American novelist, humanist, and antiwar activist imprisoned for conscientious draft resistance during World War II. Initially assigned to the Quaker-run Civilian Public Service camp at Big Flats, New York, he left because he believed cooperation with the draft violated his conscience. His prison memoir describes detention on West Street in Manhattan and transfers through Rochester, Chillicothe, and Ashland. He later wrote Pacifist: Or, My War and Louis Lepke. His novels included A Wreath and a Curse, which was adapted for Broadway as All Summer Long, and he received a Guggenheim fellowship.