She wrote of the childhood adventures of Henry Huggins, Ribsy, and Ramona Quimby, to name a few. The neighborhood in which Cleary grew up in northeast Portland was the setting for her novels. She remained in Yakima until 1940, when she married Clarence Cleary and moved to California. This prompted her to write her first book about a boy named Henry. Cleary went on to write thirty-eight books, which have been translated into fourteen languages.Ĭleary attended junior college in Ontario, California, in 1934, graduated from University of California, Berkeley, in 1938, and received a degree from the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington in 1939. She became a children’s librarian in Yakima, Washington, where children would ask her where the books about kids were. It was a school librarian who suggested that she should become a writer of books for boys and girls.
Her family moved to Portland, where she attended elementary and high school. Born in McMinnville, Oregon, in 1916, Beverly Bunn lived on a farm in Yamhill. Beverly Cleary is Oregon’s most famous author of children’s books.
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