# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/beverly-cleary
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:33:56.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/beverly-cleary"
name: "Beverly Cleary"
slug: "beverly-cleary"
description: "Beverly Atlee Cleary was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. She was one of America's most successful authors: 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of her best known characters are Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse."
tagline: "American writer of children's books (1916–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beverly_Cleary_1971.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-04-12"
deathDate: "2021-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.88534133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://beverlycleary.com/"
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    title: "Beverly Cleary"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump