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[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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  1. ^ "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...
  2. ^ "11 Awards Given by Society of Magazine Editors". The New York Times. 29 April 1982.
  3. ^ http://www.magazine.org/asme/national-magazine-awards/winners-finalists?field_award_category_tid=All&field_award_w_or_f_value=All&field_award_year_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_award_year_value%5Bmax%5D=&title=&field_award_editor_value=&field_article_author_value=&page=2&order=field_award_w_or_f&sort=desc
  4. ^ http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/4050.pdf
  5. ^ http://www.acep.org/Legislation-and-Advocacy/Practice-Management-Issues/Access-to-Emergency-Care/Previous-Award-Winners/
  6. ^ Tully, Andrew (January 14, 1974). "Drug Addiction In Us Not Confined To Junkies". Beaver County Times. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-24. Retrieved 2010-10-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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