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Children’s book author Beverly Cleary, best known for Romona and Henry Huggins characters, dies aged 104
Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died. She was 104.
Key points:
- Cleary was a trained librarian and didn’t start writing books until her early 30s
- She was named a Living Legend in 2000 by the Library of Congress and won a US National Medal of Arts in 2003
- Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages
Cleary’s publisher HarperCollins announced on Friday that the author died Thursday in Northern California, where she had lived since the 1960s. No cause of death was given.
Trained as a librarian, Cleary didn’t start writing books until her early 30s, when she wrote “Henry Huggins,”…
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