Name Jon Franklin | Role Writer | |
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Education University of Maryland, College Park Books Writing for Story, The Wolf in the Parlor: How the, The Wolf in the Parlor: The Etern, If I Die in the Service of Scienc, Shock‑Trauma | ||
JON FRANKLIN Interview Excerpt
Jon Daniel Franklin (born January 13, 1943) is an American writer. He was born in Enid, Oklahoma. He won the inaugural Pulitzer Prizes in two journalism categories both for his work as a science writer with the Baltimore Evening Sun. Franklin holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland. Franklin taught creative writing the University of Oregon, was the head of the technical journalism department at Oregon State University, and a Journalism professor at his alma mater, the University of Maryland. He received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland in 1981, and the College of Notre Dame in 1982.
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- JON FRANKLIN Interview Excerpt
- GLORY COLLISION Post Fight Press Conference Cor Hemmers and Jon Franklin
- Books
- References
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, and won the first Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1985, for a series about molecular psychiatry, "The Mind Fixers".