Maurice Pefferkorn

Maurice Pefferkorn (Moreuil, 23 July 1884 – Paris, 8 August 1953) was a French sports journalist and writer. He specialized in association football.^[1]

He was an engineer by training, graduated from the Industrial Institute of the North (current Lille Central School), class of 1907.^[2] He was notably a sports columnist for the right-wing nationalist newspaper Candide. He wrote several books on football, the Olympic Games, and athletic sport. He is the winner of the Grand Prize for Sports Literature.^[3]