
“Looking back, she’d often say, ‘I’ve had a lucky life,’ and generations of children count themselves lucky too - lucky to have the very real characters Beverly Cleary created, including Henry Huggins, Ramona and Beezus Quimby, and Ralph S. “We are saddened by the passing of Beverly Cleary, one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time,” president and publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books Suzanne Murphy said in a statement Friday.

Photo: Christina Koci Hernandez/San Francisco Chronicle by Getty ImagesĪccording to her publisher, children’s author Beverly Cleary, born Beverly Atlee Bunn, passed away on Thursday at the age of 104 in Carmel, California.
