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Jack
Canfield
is best known for his work on the best-selling
series of books titled Chicken Soup for
the Soul that had over 124 different titles
in 2007 under the series name and has
sold over 100 million copies. He is also
known for his work as a motivational speaker
and was featured in the popular book and
DVD of "The Secret".
Born
on August 19, 1944 in Fort Worth, TX,
Jack Canfield eventually ended up in Wheeling,
WV for his high school education at Linsly
Military Institute. He graduated in 1962
and attended Harvard University where
he graduated with a B.A. in Chinese History
in 1966. After college he pursued his
Masters in Education at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst and graduated
in 1973.
While
studying at the University of Massachusetts,
Jack Canfield met his first wife, Judith
Ohlbaum and married her in 1971. They
had four children before divorcing in
1976. Two years later he married Georgia
Lee Noble with whom he had one child.
The marriage lasted twenty-one years until
they divorced in 1999. He married Inga
Marie Mahoney in 2001.
During
his second marriage, Canfield met and
befriended Mark
Victor Hansen, an author with whom
he eventually shared his original visions
for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
His idea was to combine a series of short,
inspirational stories into a single book
that would appeal to everyone. Over the
course of three years, Hansen and Jack
Canfield collected 68 stories and began
appealing to publishers and agents to
sell and promote their work. It was picked
up and by 1997 he and Mark Victor Hansen
were considered the top-selling authors
in the United States.
Canfield
has since created the Canfield Training
Group in Santa Barbara, California, and
The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Culver
City, California. The Canfield Training
Group helps train and motivate individuals,
leaders and entrepreneurs to achieve their
professional and personal goals. The Foundation
for Self-Esteem provides self-esteem resources
to human resource professionals, social
workers and welfare recipients. He is
also the CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Enterprises that, besides promoting and
publishing activities around the world,
also helps to promote Jack Canfield's
radio program and syndicated newspaper
column, published in 150 periodicals worldwide.
His
publishing career did not end with the
Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Although
books are added to this collection annually,
Canfield has also published inspirational
and motivational books. The Power of Focus,
The Aladdin Factor, and Dare to Win are
some of his best-selling titles and his
recent book, The Success Principles: How
to Get From Where You Are to Where You
Want to Be, combines his lectures and
principles into a book format. Jack Canfield
has also produced an audio program, Maximum
Confidence, through the highly successful
Nightengale-Conant series of motivational
titles.
Jack
Canfield continues to give lectures and
speeches while writing and producing inspirational
materials for millions of people in all
areas of life. He was featured in the
series "The
Secret" by Rhonda
Byrne to talk about the power of attraction
and how it helped him both personally
and professionally.
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