Beverly cleary author biography samples
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Last Thursday, the much-loved children’s author Beverly Cleary passed away at age 104. Ms. Cleary’s writing changed the world of children’s books by showing that stories about the lives of ordinary kids could be interesting, funny, and popular.
Beverly Cleary was the best-selling and award-winning author of dozens of books for children, including “Ramona the Pest”, “The Mouse and the Motorcycle”, “Henry Huggins”, and “Dear Mr. Henshaw”.
Ms. Cleary was born in 1916. As a child, she had trouble learning to read. Even after she learned to love reading, she still found many books boring. She felt like the people she was reading about didn’t have much to do with her and her life. She wanted to read funny books about children like herself.
When she grew up, Ms. Cleary became a librarian. One day in the library, a boy leaned across the counter and asked her, “Where are the books about kids like us?” She real
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Children's Author/Illustrator Biographies
Cleary, Beverly
1916 -
Author
www.beverlycleary.com
1987 Ludington Award Winner
SOURCE CITATION
"Beverly (Atlee Bunn) Cleary." Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, 2nd ed., 8 vols. Gale Group, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.
Photograph provided by HarperCollins.
BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
Acknowledged as one of the most beloved authors of children's literature, Beverly Cleary has been writing books for young people for more than fifty years, a period during which she has retained her popularity, critical acclaim, and relevance. A prolific writer with a wide range of interests who has sold over ten million hardcover books and many more paperbacks, she has written picture books, realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction, and has written for audiences ranging from preschoolers through young adults. Cleary told MAICYA: "I write with a pen o
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Beverly Cleary is a well-known, prolific author of books for children. Her career spanned more than 50 years and her books have been loved by generations upon generations of kids. But have you ever wondered what Beverly Cleary’s own childhood was like? Thankfully Beverly penned two memoirs about her life prior to her publishing success and I found them both ganska fascinating for a variety of reasons.
Before we dig into Beverly Cleary’s early life, let’s talk genre…
What genre of books do you like to read? For me, it’s usually historical fiction, mysteries, young adult, children, and realistic fiction.
(It pains me to call it realistic fiction. My kids (and probably English teachers everywhere!) swear that this fryst vatten a real genre but to me what is known as realistic fiction is just called fiction. But here you go kids… proof that I have admitted to using the begrepp realistic fiction!)
I also enjoy a personal sub-genre of fiction.