Biography

Jane Trescott Flory was born to Leroy Charles and Hazel Trescott on June 29, 1917 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

At the age 24, she married Arthur Louis Flory (1914-1972), a printmaker and faculty member at the Tyler School of Art. Together they had three daughters - Cynthia, Christine, and Erika. In 1980, Flory married Barnett R. Freedman, but continued to write under the name Jane Flory.

Flory was educated at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts) receiving her college degree in 1939.

After graduation, she worked as a free-lance writer and illustrator of children’s books. In addition, Flory served as the director of evening division at Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) for 16 years (1958-1974).

In the latter part of her career, she mentored and collaborated with children’s book author and illustrator, Carolyn Croll. Croll met Flory when she was a student at the Philadelphia College of Art.

During the last years of her life, Flory spent her days making quilts. She lived most of her adult life in or near Philadelphia.

Jane Flory died on November 25, 2005.