They were the parents of twins, a boy and a girl born in 1955 who inspired her book Mitch and Amy. They married in 1940 Clarence Cleary died in 2004. “I just got mad and rebellious.”īy sixth or seventh grade, “I decided that I was going to write children’s stories,” she said.Ĭleary graduated from junior college in Ontario, Calif., and the University of California at Berkeley, where she met her husband, Clarence.

“I had chicken pox, smallpox and tonsillitis in the first grade and nobody seemed to think that had anything to do with my reading trouble,” Cleary told the AP. She was a slow reader, which she blamed on illness and a mean-spirited first-grade teacher who disciplined her by snapping a steel-tipped pointer across the back of her hands. I think it comes from living in isolation on a farm the first six years of my life where my main activity was observing,” Cleary said.Ĭleary was born Beverly Bunn on April 12, 1916, in McMinnville, Ore., and lived on a farm in Yamhill until her family moved to Portland when she was school-age. People are astonished at the things I remember. “I seem to have grown up with an unusual memory. She produced two volumes of autobiography for young readers, A Girl from Yamhill, on her childhood, and My Own Two Feet, which tells the story of her college and young adult years up to the time of her first book. She is lauded in literary circles far and wide. Thats not easy to do, especially when Ramona Quimby gets involved. Henrys dad has promised to take him salmon fishing on one condition he has to keep his dog Ribsy out of trouble for two months. In 2003, she was chosen as one of the winners of the National Medal of Arts and met President George W. Henry and Ribsy is the third book in the Henry Huggins series of humorous childrens novels written by Beverly Cleary. She was named a Living Legend in 2000 by the Library of Congress.

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