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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