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Beverly Cleary
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American writer of children's books (1916–2021)
OverviewAI-generated
Beverly Cleary was an American novelist, children's writer, autobiographer, and librarian, born in McMinnville on 12 April 1916. She was educated at the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley, and began her career in 1939, working in children's and young adult literature until 1999. She had two children and lived to become a centenarian.
She received the National Medal of Arts, the Newbery Medal, the Children's Literature Legacy Award, and the National Book Award, and produced 106 recorded works over her career. She died in Carmel-by-the-Sea on 25 March 2021.
Synthesized by Vinony from 27 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1916
- Died
- 2021
- Works
- 107
Top works
- It's Great To Be Eight
- Book Guide Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Hit Series Grade 3, Unit 4
- Beezus and Ramona
- Henry and the Clubhouse
- Ellen Tebbits;
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1916
- Active to
- 2021
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 203
- Total plays
- 14,635
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Beverly+Cleary">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,435x
- A revised European-American classification of lymphoid neoplasms: a proposal from the International Lymphoma Study Group [see comments]
· 1994 · cited 4,828x
- Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment
· 2006 · cited 4,310x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,326x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,823x
via Crossref · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Beverly
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- McMinnville
- Place of death
- Carmel-by-the-Sea
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- children's and young adult literature
- Official website
- beverlycleary.com
- Image
- Beverly Cleary 1971.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1916-04-12
- Commons category
- Beverly Cleary
- start of work period
- 1939-00-00
- date of death
- 2021-03-25
- name in native language
- Beverly Cleary
- end of work period
- 1999-00-00
- subject has role
- centenarian
Sources (8)
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