Jon Franklin

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Jon Daniel Franklin (January 13, 1942 – January 21, 2024) was an American writer. He was born in Enid, Oklahoma.^[1] He won the inaugural Pulitzer Prizes in two journalism categories both for his work as a science writer with the Baltimore Evening Sun.^[2] Franklin held a B.S. in journalism from the University of Maryland.^[3] He was professor emeritus of journalism at his alma mater; previously, Franklin taught creative writing at the University of Oregon and was the head of the technical journalism department at Oregon State University.^[4] He received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland in 1981 and Notre Dame de Namur University in 1982.^[2]

The Canadian television film Shocktrauma is based on the book Franklin co-wrote with Alan Doelp.

Working for The Baltimore Sun, Franklin won the first Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1979, for covering a brain surgery,^[5] and won the first Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1985, for a series about molecular psychiatry, "The Mind Fixers".^[6]

Franklin died from esophageal cancerinAnnapolis, Maryland, on January 21, 2024. He was 82.^[7]

Books

Shocktrauma (1980) with Alan Doelp
Not Quite A Miracle (1983) with Alan Doelp
Guinea Pig Doctors (1984) with Dr. John T. Sutherland; republished in 2003 as If I Die In The Service Of Science: The Dramatic Stories Of Medical Scientists Who Experimented On Themselves
Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner (1986)
Franklin, Jon (1987). Molecules of the mind : the brave new science of molecular psychology. New York: Dell Pub. ISBN 0-440-50005-2. OCLC 17958586.
The Wolf In The Parlor: The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs (2009)

^ Cusick, Daniel "Jon Franklin's Reality Story Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine", College Park Magazine,

^ ^a ^b Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Clarage, Elizabeth C., "Jon Daniel Franklin" Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1999, pg 196.

^ "Jon Franklin, Professor Emeritus", Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, The University of Maryland

^ Jon Franklin Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Science Writing Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico

^ "Feature Writing". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.

^ "Explanatory Journalism". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.

^ Murphy, Brian (23 January 2024). "Jon Franklin, two-time Pulitzer winner as science journalist, dies at 82". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 January 2024.

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