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'''Jon Daniel Franklin''' (born January 13, 1943) is an American writer. He was born in [[Enid, Oklahoma]].<ref name=Cusick>Cusick, Daniel "[http://www.urhome.umd.edu/CPMAG/summer01/franklin.html Jon Franklin's Reality Story]", ''College Park Magazine'',</ref> He won the inaugural Pulitzer Prizes in two journalism categories both for his work as a science writer with the ''[[Baltimore Evening Sun]]''.<ref name=Brennan>Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Clarage, Elizabeth C., "Jon Daniel Franklin" ''Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners'', 1999, pg 196.</ref> Franklin holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.<ref name=Merrill>"[http://www.merrill.umd.edu/directory/jon-franklin Jon Franklin, Professor Emeritus]", Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, The University of Maryland</ref> Franklin taught creative writing the [[University of Oregon]], was the head of the Science Journalism department at [[Oregon State University]], and a Journalism professor at his alma mater, the University of Maryland.<ref name=Sci>[http://sciwrite.org/sciwrite/sciwrite.franklin.html Jon Franklin], Science Writing Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico</ref> He received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland in 1981, and the College of Notre Dame in 1982.<ref name=Brennan />
'''Jon Daniel Franklin''' (born January 13, 1943) is an American writer. He was born in [[Enid, Oklahoma]].<ref name=Cusick>Cusick, Daniel "[http://www.urhome.umd.edu/CPMAG/summer01/franklin.html Jon Franklin's Reality Story]", ''College Park Magazine'',</ref> He won the inaugural Pulitzer Prizes in two journalism categories both for his work as a science writer with the ''[[Baltimore Evening Sun]]''.<ref name=Brennan>Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Clarage, Elizabeth C., "Jon Daniel Franklin" ''Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners'', 1999, pg 196.</ref> Franklin holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.<ref name=Merrill>"[http://www.merrill.umd.edu/directory/jon-franklin Jon Franklin, Professor Emeritus]", Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, The University of Maryland</ref> Franklin taught creative writing the [[University of Oregon]], was the head of the Technical Journalism department at [[Oregon State University in 1984]], and a Journalism professor at his alma mater, the University of Maryland.<ref name=Sci>[http://sciwrite.org/sciwrite/sciwrite.franklin.html Jon Franklin], Science Writing Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico</ref> He received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland in 1981, and the College of Notre Dame in 1982.<ref name=Brennan />


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

Revision as of 01:23, 14 May 2014

Jon Daniel Franklin (born January 13, 1943) is 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 holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.[3] Franklin taught creative writing the University of Oregon, was the head of the Technical Journalism department at Oregon State University in 1984, and a Journalism professor at his alma mater, the University of Maryland.[4] He received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland in 1981, and the College of Notre Dame 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]

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)
  • Molecules of the Mind: The Brave New Science of Molecular Psychology (1987)
  • The Wolf In The Parlor: The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs (2009)

References

  1. ^ Cusick, Daniel "Jon Franklin's Reality Story", College Park Magazine,
  2. ^ a b Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Clarage, Elizabeth C., "Jon Daniel Franklin" Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1999, pg 196.
  3. ^ "Jon Franklin, Professor Emeritus", Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, The University of Maryland
  4. ^ Jon Franklin, Science Writing Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  5. ^ "Feature Writing". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  6. ^ "Explanatory Journalism". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.

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