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.
[citation needed] 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.
[1][7] Canfield hosts a radio program and writes a globally syndicated newspaper column.
[11] Canfield later co-authored dozens of additional books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.