![]() ![]() Her college (UC Berkeley) named a dorm for her her graduate school (the University of Washington library school) named a professorship. ![]() Although her career had just begun, she was sure it would be fruitful, because she knew she could spend her writing life deploying, as she later recalled, “all the bits of knowledge about children, reading, and writing that had clung to me like burrs or dandelion fluff.” For decades, beginning with her first book, Henry Huggins, Beverly Cleary would develop those memories and observations to create one of the most enduring and influential bodies of work in American fiction.Ĭleary, who turned 95 in April and whose books have so far sold more than 91 million copies, has won it all: obviously, if belatedly, the Newbery and the Laura Ingalls Wilder medals, but also the National Medal of Arts and the Library of Congress’s Living Legend award. ![]() O n a shimmering day in the Berkeley Hills in 1949-a day hopeful as only those in post-war California could be-a young author of a children’s book walked down the winding street from her house to deposit her first check from her publisher. ![]()
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