Jon Franklin

Greatest English professor died today from a fall (a broken hip?) and complications leading to Hospice. Franklin’s, writing for story, built on a universal structure for story. Like the limric, or the iambic pentamitor in poetry. Franklin insisted that every story consisted of five parts: a unique setting, a unique circumstance, a complication, an evolving struggle to resolve the situation leading to a climatic outcome. Franklin advanced this as a framework for non-fiction. Franklin earned the highest regard as professor of English literature and writing at the University of Maryland. His book, Writing for Story, ranks as the leading guideline for creative non-fiction and for this author.