A world-reknowned author of children’s books passed away in her home in Carmel Valley late last week. Born April 12th of 1916 in Oregon, Beverly Bunn, who later married Clarence Cleary and became Beverly Cleary……wrote her first book “Henry Huggins” back in 1950. Numerous books followed that one including Henry and Ribsy, Beezus and Ramona, “Ramona The Pest”, “The Mouse and the Motorcycle”, “Ralph S. Mouse”, “Socks”, “Dear Mr. Henshaw” and many others for which she won numerous awards over the years.
91 million copies of her books, which have been translated into more than 25 languages, have been sold worldwide, and she was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in 2000…..after she retired from writing in 1999, following the release of her final book “Ramona’s World”.
Beverly Cleary (who was just weeks shy of 105 years-old) was pre-deceased in 2004, by her husband of 64 years (when Clarence was 94 years-old), and she is survived by their 2 children (Malcolm and Marianne, who are in their 60s).
