Canfield, Jane White

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Sculptor and author Jane White Canfield was born in 1897 in Syracuse, NY. Her art has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum and the Cornell University Museum. She wrote two children's books, The Frog Prince: A True Story and Swan Cove. She died of cancer in 1984.

Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. 38, p. 42.

From the guide to the Jane White Canfield Papers, 1978, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])

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