Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield III
Born August 19, 1944
Fort Worth, Texas
Nationality US Citizen
Occupation Motivational speaker, author

Jack Canfield (born August 19, 1944)[1][2] is an American author, and motivational speaker.[3] 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.[3][4] In 2005 Canfield co-authored The Success Principles.

Early Life and education

Canfield was born in Fort Worth, Texas on August 19, 1944. He spent his teen years in Wheeling West Virginia and graduated from the Linsly Military Institute in 1962.[1] Canfield received an A.B. in Chinese History from Harvard University in 1966.[1] He received his M.Ed. in 1973 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] Canfield received an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Santa Monica in 1981.[4]

Career

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.[4] In 1976 Canfield co-authored 100 ways to enhance self-concept in the classroom: A handbook for teachers and parents.[5] He ran a Gestalt center called the New England Center for Personal and Organizational Development[6] and was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of America (TOYA) by the U.S. Jaycees in 1978[4]

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.[1][7] Canfield hosts a radio program and writes a globally syndicated newspaper column.[1] He holds a Guinness Book world record for having seven books on the New York Times best-seller list at the same time.[7] Canfield co-authored The Success Principles and was featured in a self-help film called The Secret.[7] His best known books include: The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, and Dare to Win.[1] In 2005 Canfield co-authored The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council.[8][9]

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Canfield coauthored Chicken Soup for the Soul with Mark Victor Hansen in 1993. According to USA Today, Chicken Soup for the Soul was the third best-selling book in the United States during the mid-1990s.[10] Canfield later co-authored dozens of additional books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Personal life

Canfield married in 1971 and had four children before he got divorced in 1976. A few years later he remarried and had a fifth child. He divorced in 1999 and married for a third time in 2001.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Unknown author. "Jack Canfield biography". http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/jack-canfield/index.htm''. Woopidoo. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Jack Canfield". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. August 31, 2006. Retrieved on February 13, 2009.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Denning, Steve (28 April 2011), "How Chicken Soup For the Soul Dramatically Expanded Its Brand", Forbes, retrieved 1 February 2012
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 biography.jrank.org, Famous Authors Vol 17, Jack Canfield, accessed 02-14-2009
  5. ↑ Saul Cooper, Richard Munger, Mark M. Ravlin, Mental health prevention through affective education in schools, The Journal of Prevention, Volume 1, Issue 1 , pp 24-34
  6. ↑ Starkweather, Llan (January 2008). Earth Without Polarity. The Wizard. p. 206. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Suttle, Marilyn (2009). Who's Your Gladys?: How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer into Your. New York: AMACOM. pp. 17–23. Retrieved July 2014.
  8. ↑ Unknown author and date TLC Official web site
  9. ↑ Ellis, Doug (2011). Transformational Leadership Council. Vol. II. San Francisco: Blurb Publishing.
  10. ↑ "USA Today", USA Today, 31 October 2013: 2D

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