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She moved to [[California]] to attend the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and after graduation with a [[B.A]] in English in 1938, studied at the School of Librarianship at the [[University of Washington]] in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], where she earned a degree in [[librarian|librarianship]] in 1939. Her first job was as a librarian in [[Yakima, Washington]], where she met many children who were searching for the same books that she had always hoped to find as a child herself. In response, she wrote her first book, ''[[Henry Huggins]],'' which was published in [[1950]].

In [[1940]] she married Clarence Cleary and moved back to California. The Clearys became parents to a set of twins, MarrienneMarianne ElizabethElisabeth and Malcolm James, in [[1955]]. She currently lives with her husband in [[Carmel, California]].

She has also written two auto-biographies, ''[[A Girl from Yamhill]]'' and