While with Houghton, Flory wrote and illustrated 15 books, each received well by critics. Flory continued to publish books through Whitman and other publishing companies until 1960, when she signed with Houghton Mifflin Publishing.
After the death of her husband in 1972, Flory continued her passion for writing and illustrating.įlory’s first children’s book, Snooty, the Pig Who Was Proud, was published in 1944 by Whitman Publishing. Together they had three children: Cynthia Jane, Christine Kate, and Erika Susan. She began working as a free-lance writer and illustrator of children’s books soon after college, and married artist and college instructor Arthur Leroy Flory on September 29, 1941. Educated at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now Philadelphia College of Art), Flory received her college degree in 1939.
Jane Trescott Flory was born Jane Trescott in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on June 29, 1917, to Leroy Charles and Hazel Trescott.
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