John Pekkanen

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John Pekkanen (born February 11, 1939 in Lyme, Connecticut) is an author,^[1] and two-time National Magazine Award-winning American journalist and the winner of ten other national journalism awards including the National Headliner Award, the Penney-Missouri Award for medical journalism, and the Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians.

A former correspondent and bureau chief for Life magazine and a senior writer for Washingtonian, Pekkanen has written for The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, Town and Country and is the author of Donor: How One Girl's Death Gave Life to Others; The Best Doctors in the U.S.; Victims: An Account of a Rape; The American Connection - Profiteering and Politicking in the "Ethical" Drug Industry;^[2] M. D.: Doctors Talk about Themselves; and My Father, My Son with Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and Lieutenant Elmo Zumwalt. He is also a published poet.

Pekkanen has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

References

↑ "Reagan Had Second Crisis During Hospital Stay?". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. July 24, 1981. p. 4B. Retrieved 8 May 2011. "Pekkanen, winner of several awards for his medical reporting..."
↑ Tully, Andrew (January 14, 1974). "Drug Addiction In Us Not Confined To Junkies". Beaver County Times. Retrieved 8 May 2011.

External links

John Pekkanen at Washingtonian.com

Nieman Fellow Alumni

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Name	Pekkanen, John
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Short description	Writer, Author, Journalist
Date of birth	February 11, 1939
Place of birth	Lyme, Connecticut
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