John Pekkanen (born February 11, 1939, in Lyme, Connecticut) is an author,[1] and two-time National Magazine Award-winning[2][3] American journalist and the winner of ten other national journalism awards including the National Headliner Award, the Penney-Missouri Award for medical journalism,[4] and the Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians.[5]
A former correspondent and bureau chief for Life magazine and a senior writer for Washingtonian, Pekkanen has written for The New Republic, The 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;[6] 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[7] at Harvard University. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
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edit- ^ "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...
- ^ "11 Awards Given by Society of Magazine Editors". The New York Times. 29 April 1982.
- ^ "Magazine Publishers Applaud House Passage of Bipartisan Postal Reform Bill". 10 February 2022.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Previous Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2014-07-29. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
- ^ Tully, Andrew (January 14, 1974). "Drug Addiction In Us Not Confined To Junkies". Beaver County Times. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- ^ "Nieman Foundation | Nieman Fellowships | Meet the Fellows | Alumni Fellows | Class of 1971". Archived from the original on 2010-08-24. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
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