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About Jon Franklin
- 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.
- He is currently 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.
- 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, and won the first Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1985, for a series about molecular psychiatry, "The Mind Fixers".
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