Jon Franklin

For the sports marketing executive, seeJon J. Franklin.

Jon Daniel Franklin(January 13, 1942 – January 21, 2024) was an American writer. He was born inEnid, Oklahoma.He won the inaugural Pulitzer Prizes in two journalism categories both for his work as a science writer with theBaltimore Evening Sun.Franklin held a B.S. in journalism from theUniversity of Maryland.He was professor emeritus of journalism at his alma mater; previously, Franklin taughtcreative writingat theUniversity of Oregonand was the head of thetechnical journalismdepartment atOregon State University.He received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland in 1981 andNotre Dame de Namur Universityin 1982.

The Canadian television filmShocktraumais based on the book Franklin co-wrote with Alan Doelp.

Working forThe Baltimore Sun,Franklin won the firstPulitzer Prize for Feature Writingin 1979, for covering a brain surgery,and won the firstPulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalismin 1985, for a series about molecular psychiatry, "The Mind Fixers".

Franklin died fromesophageal cancerinAnnapolis, Maryland,on January 21, 2024. He was 82.

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 asIf 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.ISBN0-440-50005-2.OCLC17958586.
• The Wolf In The Parlor: The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs(2009)

External links

• Jon FranklinatLibrary of Congress,with 6 library catalog records