John Helyar (born 1951[1]) is an American journalist and author.
He is married to The Wall Street Journal’s Betsy Morris.
[2] He is the author of the 1994 book, Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball.
[3] His reporting with Bryan Burrough on RJR Nabisco earned them the 1989 Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline and/or Beat Writing.
[4] They turned their research into the book Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, which was made into an HBO Emmy award-winning a film of the same title.