John Pekkanen

John Pekkanen (born February 11, 1939 in Lyme, Connecticut) is an author, a two-time National Magazine Award-winning journalist and the winner of eight other national awards, including a national [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_award Emmy Award] for "The Saving of the President," a feature-length television documentary based on Pekkanen's article.
A former bureau chief for Life, a senior writer for The Washingtonian, John Pekkanen 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 and Elmo Zumwalt.
John Pekkanen was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.