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Beverly Cleary

Living place: Mcminnville

Birthday: 12-4-1916

Population of US 1916: 101,961,000

Global rank: #8501

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Author for children Beverly Cleary profile

Who is Author for children Beverly Cleary?
Popular young writer who created the popular Henry Huggins and Ramona series. Her numerous literary honors include the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.
In 2000, she was named a living legend by the Library of Congress.

Young / Before famous

The town where she grew up was too small for a library, so her mother arranged for books that had been shipped from a nearby library. A lifelong lover of books, Cleary graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in English and later received her library science degree from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Family life info

She was born Beverly Attlee Bunn in Oregon, and she was raised as a child. She married Clarence Cleary in 1940, and the couple settled in Oakland, California with their two children.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Author for children Beverly Cleary?
A 2010 film adaptation of the popular book by Cleary, Ramona and Beezus, stars Selena Gomez in the role of Beezus.

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When was Author for children Beverly Cleary born?
Beverly Cleary was born in 12-4-1916, death year is , at the age of 108.
Where is Author for children Beverly Cleary's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Beverly Cleary was born in Mcminnville, Oregon- United States. is a Author for children, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Beverly Cleary's global rank is 8501 and whose rank is 6 in list of famous Author for children. Population of US in 1916 is about 101,961,000 persons.

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Events in 1916 and 12-4

Events in US in the birth year of Beverly Cleary

Congress authorizes a plan to expand the U.S. armed forces over the next five years (June).
Montana voters elect 36-year-old Republican Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
U.S. National Park Service in the Department of the Interior is created by act of Congress (Aug. 20).
Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the country at 46 Amboy St., Brooklyn.

Birthday Beverly Cleary (12-4) in history

Day 12-4 year 1861: The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.
Day 12-4 year 1862: James J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive "The General," inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie.
Day 12-4 year 1945: President Franklin Roosevelt died.
Day 12-4 year 1955: The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called "safe, effective, and potent."
Day 12-4 year 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.
Day 12-4 year 1981: The first space shuttle, Columbia, took its first test flight.
Day 12-4 year 1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first African-American mayor.
Day 12-4 year 1999: Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.