Jon Franklin
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 cancer in Annapolis, 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)
References
- ^ 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.
External links
- Jon Franklin at Library of Congress, with 6 library catalog records
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- Jon Franklin (1985)
- Staff of The New York Times (1986)
- Jeff Lyon & Peter Gorne (1987)
- Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart (1988)
- David Hanners, William Snyder & Karen Blessen (1989)
- David A. Vise & Steve Coll (1990)
- Susan C. Faludi (1991)
- Robert S. Capers & Eric Lipton (1992)
- Mike Toner (1993)
- Ronald Kotulak (1994)
- Leon Dash & Lucian Perkins (1995)
- Laurie Garrett (1996)
- Michael Vitez, April Saul & Ron Cortes (1997)
- Paul Salopek (1998)
- Richard Read (1999)
- Eric Newhouse (2000)
- Staff of the Chicago Tribune (2001)
- Staff of The New York Times (2002)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2003)
- Kevin Helliker & Thomas M. Burton (2004)
- Gareth Cook (2005)
- David Finkel (2006)
- Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling & Rick Loomis (2007)
- Amy Harmon (2008)
- Bettina Boxall & Julie Cart (2009)
- Michael Moss & Staff of The New York Times (2010)
- Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar & Alison Sherwood (2011)
- David Kocieniewski (2012)
- Staff of The New York Times including David Barboza, Charles Duhigg, David Kocieniewski, Steve Lohr, John Markoff, David Segal, David Streitfeld, Hiroko Tabuchi & Bill Vlasic (2013)
- Eli Saslow (2014)
- Zachary R. Mider (2015)
- T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong (2016)
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy & Miami Herald (2017)
- Staff of The Arizona Republic & Staff of USA Today Network (2018)
- David Barstow, Susanne Craig & Russ Buettne (2019)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2020)
- Ed Yong (2021)
- Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts (2021)
- Natalie Wolchover & Staff of Quanta Magazine (2022)
- Caitlin Dickerson (2023)
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