Jon Daniel Franklin (January 13, 1942 – January 21, 2024) was an American writer. He was born inEnid, Oklahoma.^[1] He won the inaugural Pulitzer Prizes in two journalism categories both for his work as a science writer with theBaltimore Evening Sun.^[2] Franklin held a B.S. in journalism from theUniversity of Maryland.^[3] He was professor emeritus of journalism at his alma mater; previously, Franklin taughtcreative writing at theUniversity of Oregon and was the head of thetechnical journalism department atOregon State University.^[4] He received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland in 1981 andNotre Dame de Namur University in 1982.^[2]

The Canadian television filmShocktrauma is based on the book Franklin co-wrote with Alan Doelp.

Working forThe Baltimore Sun, Franklin won the firstPulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1979, for covering a brain surgery,^[5] and won the firstPulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1985, for a series about molecular psychiatry, "The Mind Fixers".^[6]

Franklin died fromesophageal cancer inAnnapolis, Maryland, on January 21, 2024. He was 82.^[7]

• 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 asIf 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)

• Jon Franklin atLibrary of Congress, with 6 library catalog records

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