Beverly Cleary – Now 104 years old
Beverly Cleary, now 104 years old, is one of America’s most successful living authors. Since publishing her first book in the 1950s, she has sold a whopping 91 million copies worldwide. She is best known for penning children’s stories like Beezus and Ramona and Ellen Tibbits, to name a few. She currently lives in a retirement home in Carmel Valley, California.