Children’s book author Beverly Cleary, best known for Romona and Henry Huggins characters, dies aged 104 – ABC News

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.

• 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…

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