Jean Kellogg was born December 28, 1916 in Chicago, Ill. She became an editor at the Henry Regnery Co. in Chicago, and later a professor of English and literature at Mundelein College and Rosary College, both in the Chicago area. As a writer she adapted several of L. Frank Baum's Oz books for juveniles, and wrote several of her own under the pseudonyms Sally Jackson and Gene Kellogg.
Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. 10
From the guide to the Jean Kellogg Papers, 1961, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])