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John Pekkanen

John Pekkanen (born February 11, 1939, in Lyme, Connecticut) is an author, 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'', ''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''; ''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. Provided by Wikipedia