![]() ![]() ![]() “And I waited and waited and no ideas came. “I expected to write about the maturing of a sensitive female,” she said, in a 2015 interview. ![]() Then, after settling down with her husband, Clarence Cleary, in Berkeley, California, she pulled up a typewriter to try her first book.īeverly Cleary has written more than 40 books.Ĭourtesy: Cleary Family Archive/Used with Permission She’d gone to the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Washington, and worked as a librarian in Yakima, Washington. She would go on to make Klickitat and Tillamook streets famous in her books.īut she didn’t actually start writing until much later in life. Born Beverly Atlee Bunn, the iconic writer of children’s and young-adult novels spent most of her own childhood in Northeast Portland’s Hollywood neighborhood. ![]()
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