Her first children's book ''Snooty, the Pig Who Was Proud'' was published by Whitman Publishing in 1944. she went on to write over 30 books. Her last book was ''The Great Bamboozlement''. It was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1982.
Flory was married twice; first to Arthur L. Flory, with whom she had three children, then to Barnett R. Freedman in 1980.
Flory died on November 25, 2005, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
