Jon Daniel Franklin is an Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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-winning American author. He was born on January 13, 1943 in Enid, Oklahoma

Enid, Oklahoma

Enid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. In 2010, the population was 49,379, making it the ninth largest city in Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a...

. He won the first Pulitzer Prizes for Feature Writing in 1979 and for Explanatory Journalism in 1985, 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

University of Oregon

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, was the head of the Science Journalism department at Oregon State University

Oregon State University

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, 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.