Thursday, April 8, 2021

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Beverly Cleary

 



With “Henry Huggins,” published in 1950, Ms. Cleary, a librarian by trade, introduced a contemporary note into children’s literature. In a humorous, lively style, she made compelling drama out of the everyday problems, small injustices and perplexing mysteries — adults chief among them — that define middle-class American childhood.
Always sympathetic, never condescending, she presented her readers with characters they knew and understood, the 20th-century equivalents of Huck Finn or Louisa May Alcott’s little women, and every bit as popular: Her books sold more than 85 million copies, according to HarperCollins. To this gallery of human characters she added an animal counterpart: the motorcycle-riding Ralph S. Mouse, resident of the Mountain View Inn in the Sierra Nevada.

 

The 48 member libraries of LINKcat


Related posts:
2021
Kim Chernin.  (1/10)
James R. Flynn.  (1/30)
Larry Flynt.  (2/12)
Norman Golb.  (2/22)
Maria Guarnascheilli, book editor.  (2/18)
James Gunn.  (2/21)
Tony Hendra.  (3/7)
Norman Juster.  (3/16/2021)
Ved Mehta.  (1/12)
Marie Mongan.  (3/22)
Deborah Rhode.  (1/28)
James Ridgeway.  (2/16)
Bryan Sykes.  (1/14)
Adam Zagajewski.  (3/27)

2020
Patricia Bosworth.  (4/6)
Ben Bova.  (12/17)
Mary Higgins Clark.  (2/4)
Clive Cussler.  (2/29)
Betty Dodson  (11/11)
David Graeber.  (9/6)
Shirley Ann Grau.  (8/11)
Pete Hamill.  (8/6)
Shere Hite. (9/13)
A, E, Hotchner.  (2/18)
Roger Kahn.  (2/15)
Randall Kenan.  (9/29)
John Le Carre. (12/23/2020)
Johanna Lindsey.  (1/15)
Barry Lopez.  (12/29)
Alison Lurie.  (12/7)
Sylvia Jukes Morris.  (1/20)
Charlers Portis.  (2/19)
Julia Reed.  (9/8)
John Rothchild.  (1/22)
Gail Sheehy.  (9/3)
George Steiner.  (2/6)
Jill Paton Walsh.  (11/29)
Charles Webb.  (6/30)
Elizabeth Wurtzel.  (1/11)

2019
Warren Adler.  (4/23)
Kate Braverman.  (10/28)
Stephen Dixon.  (11/12)
Ernest J. Gaines.  (11/8)
Dan Jenkins.  (3/10)
Judith Krantz.  (6/27)
Paule Marshall.  (8/27)
Robert K. Massie.  (12/4)
Martin Mayer.  (8/3)
Wright Morris.  (7/25)
Toni Morrison.  (8/12)
Anthony Price.  (6/17)
James I. Robertson.  (11/20)
Anne Rivers Siddons.  (9/19)
John Simon.  (12/1)
Sol Stein.  (9/30)
Brad Watson.  (8/2)
Lonnie Wheeler.  (7/15)
Herman Wouk.  (5/20)
Nearly forgotten "sociological megahits" of 1970.  (6/18)

2018
Neal Thompson.  (6/17)
Barbara Kafka.  (6/8)
Weeding or historical sanitization at LINKcat libraries?  (6/2)

2017
Aline Countess of Romanones.  (12/17)
Kit Reed.  (10/1)
Carol J. Adams shares feminist classics from her personal library.  (9/8)

2016
E. M. Nathanson.  (4/10)

2015
Gunter Grass (1927-2015).  (4/15)

2014
Thomas Berger  (1924-2014).  (7/23)
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)  (4/8)

2013
Barbara Branden.  (12/26)

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