Jon Franklin

{{Short description|American writer (1942–2024)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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Jon Daniel Franklin (January 13, 1942 – January 21, 2024) was an American writer. He was born in Enid, Oklahoma.Cusick, Daniel "[http://www.urhome.umd.edu/CPMAG/summer01/franklin.html Jon Franklin's Reality Story] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204254/http://www.urhome.umd.edu/CPMAG/summer01/franklin.html |date=2013-10-29 }}", College Park Magazine, He won the inaugural Pulitzer Prizes in two journalism categories both for his work as a science writer with the Baltimore Evening Sun.Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Clarage, Elizabeth C., "Jon Daniel Franklin" Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1999, pg 196. Franklin held a B.S. in journalism from the University of Maryland."[http://www.merrill.umd.edu/directory/jon-franklin Jon Franklin, Professor Emeritus]", Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, The University of Maryland 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.[http://sciwrite.org/sciwrite/sciwrite.franklin.html Jon Franklin] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004085829/http://sciwrite.org/sciwrite/sciwrite.franklin.html |date=2011-10-04 }}, Science Writing Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico He received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland in 1981 and Notre Dame de Namur University in 1982.

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,[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Feature-Writing "Feature Writing"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26. and won the first Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1985, for a series about molecular psychiatry, "The Mind Fixers".[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Explanatory-Journalism "Explanatory Journalism"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.

Franklin died from esophageal cancer in Annapolis, Maryland, on January 21, 2024. He was 82.{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Brian |title=Jon Franklin, two-time Pulitzer winner as science journalist, dies at 82 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/23/jon-franklin-journalist-pulitzer-dies/ |access-date=24 January 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=23 January 2024}}