Awards & Winners

Jon Franklin

Date of Birth 13-January-1943
Place of Birth Enid
(Garfield County, Oklahoma)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Jon Daniel Franklin
Profession Author, Writer, Journalist
Jon Daniel Franklin 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 Science 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. 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".

Awards by Jon Franklin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jon Franklin.

1985


Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
(For his seven-part series 'The Mind Fixers,' about the new science of molecular psychiatry.)

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
For his seven-part series \"The Mind Fixers,\" about the new science of molecular psychiatry.

1979


Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
(For an account of brain surgery.)