- (This page concerns the writer. For the DJ of the same name, see John Peel).
John Peel (born 1954) is a British writer, best known for his TV series tie-in novels and novelisations. He has written under several pseudonyms, including "John Vincent" and "Nicholas Adams". He lives in Long Island, New York. While his wife is a US citizen, Peel continues to travel under a British passport. During the 1980s, Peel wrote a licensed spin-off novel based on the popular 1960s TV series The Avengers, titled Too Many Targets. He is also known for his various books based on Doctor Who, Star Trek and James Bond Jr. (written as "John Vincent").
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Peel wrote an article in the John Peel's Family Album section in the Radio Times on how he received a letter through the BBC internal mail system of a fan who thought that the writer John Peel was him:
"Dear Mr Peel, I am writing to inform you how good I think your novels are on Doctor Who. Your novelisations of Evil Of The Daleks and Power Of The Daleks gave me a unique site into..."
In the same article, Peel mentioned how people also got confused with him with several John Peel's, one of them was a technical writer of stereo equipments and the other, a gynaecologist for the queen.