Franklin Cox

Franklin Cox was raised in Atlanta and graduated from the Marist School. He received his undergraduate degree in English Literature from Saint Bernard College in 1963. After a stint as a reporter with the Atlanta Journal he attended Emory University Law School for a year.

He then gained a commission in the United States Marine Corps and served on active duty for three years as an artillery officer. He was a Forward Observer and an Artillery Liaison Officer in Vietnam. His dramatic experiences with his fellow Marines in combat led him to recently write "Lullabies for Lieutenants: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam 1965-1966", his first book (McFarland and Co.).

After his service in the Marine Corps he joined Wall Street and was a top-producing stockbroker for over twenty-five years with Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. A few years ago he left the securities industry to devote his full time to writing. He is currently working on two other books. One is his memoir, "Trust Me!" - about all the excesses he saw as a stockbroker. The other is a book about what it takes to build a perennial championship high school football program, "The Long Blue Line: the Ghosts of Marist Football."

He and his son, Franklin Vincent Cox III, own Pecan Productions Studios, Inc, a multimedia company in Atlanta. His daughter Carolina Cox Medlin lives in Destin, Florida with her husband Michael. His first grandchild, Michael Carver Medlin, was born July 22, 2010.

He was named a Finalist in the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society 2010 Literary Competition.

"Lullabies for Lieutenants" won the 2011 Silver Medal for Non-Fiction Memoir awarded by the Military Writers Society of America. It is now No. 2 in Best Sellers in Vietnam War History based on Amazon purchases.