July 28, 2014
She spent her early years in Yamhill, Oregon, went to grammar and high school (and set loads of her stories) in Portland, got her library science degree at UW and was a librarian in Yakima. So, yeah, we claim her as our own and never tire of ruminating on the reasons we love her. In that spirit, mental_floss has put together this bevy of Beverly bits, 12 Charming Tidbits About Beverly Cleary.
I was a huge Beverly Cleary fan as a kid growing up in eastern Oregon, and when I moved to Yakima and discovered that she had been a librarian there, it was one of the great thrills of my life.