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.
A former bureau chief for Life and 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 Elmo Zumwalt and Lieutenant Elmo Zumwalt. He is also a published poet.
John Pekkanen has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.