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Full Name: Jack Canfield
Date of Birth: August 19, 1944 (age 76)
Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Citizenship: American
Occupation: Motivational speaker, author
Known for: Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Website: jackcanfield.com
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Father Name: Joseph Robinette Biden Sr.
Mother Name: Catherine Eugenia Finnegan
Spouse: judith Ohlbaum (m. 1971; div. 1976)
Georgia Lee Noble (m. 1978; div. 1999) Inga Marie Mahoney
Children: 3
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Jack Canfield Biography:
- Jack Canfield is an American author, motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur.
- He is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages.
- He spent his teen years in Wheeling, West Virginia and graduated from the Linsly Military Institute in 1962.
- Canfield received an A.B. in Chinese History from Harvard University in 1966.
- Canfield began his career in 1967 when he taught a year of high school in Chicago, Illinois. He worked at the Clinton Job Corps Center in Iowa and the W.
- Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation in Chicago.
- In 1976 Canfield co-authored 100 Ways to Enhance Self-Concept in the Classroom.
- He ran a residential Gestalt center called the New England Center for Personal and Organizational Developmentand was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of America (TOYA) by the U.S. Jaycees in 1978.
- He received his M.Ed. in 1973 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Canfield received an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Santa Monica in 1981.
- Canfield is the founder and CEO of The Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California and founder of The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Culver City, California.
- Jack Canfield is an American author, motivational speaker,corporate trainer, and entrepreneur.
- He is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages.
- In 2005 Canfield co-authored with Janet Switzer The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.
( Last Updated : 14 July 2021)
