The advice stuck with her through her studies at what’s now Chaffey College in California, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied librarianship.Īt Berkeley, she met her husband, Clarence Cleary, and the two were married in 1940.Īfter college, she worked as a children’s librarian until she began to write. When the Bunn family moved to Portland, Oregon, a school librarian encouraged young Beverly to write children’s books. Mouse, as true friends who helped shape their growing-up years,” Murphy said.Ĭleary was born Beverly Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon, on April 12, 1916, and spent her early years on a farm in the nearby town of Yamhill. “Looking back, she’d often say, ‘I’ve had a lucky life,’ and generations of children count themselves lucky too - lucky to have the very real characters Beverly Cleary created, including Henry Huggins, Ramona and Beezus Quimby, and Ralph S. “We are saddened by the passing of Beverly Cleary, one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time,” said HarperCollins Children’s Books President Suzanne Murphy in the company’s news release about Cleary’s death.
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