NEW YORK - Beverly Cleary, a beloved children’s book author who brought characters like Henry Huggins, Ramona and Beezus Quimby to life, has died.
She was 104.HarperCollins Children’s Books confirmed the news Friday in a statement. Cleary died Thursday in Carmel, California, where she’d 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," published in 1950.
She went on to publish more than 40 books, becoming "beloved by generations of children," the publisher said. Children worldwide came to love the adventures of Huggins and neighbors Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby and her younger sister, Ramona.