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Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 [1] – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books.
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4 de nov. de 1998 · Posted 11/04/1998. HistoryLink.org Essay 156. Email. Share. Tweet. The first book written by Betty MacDonald, The Egg and I, rocketed to the top of the national bestseller list in 1945. Translations followed in more than 30 languages, along with a series of popular movies.
9,727 ratings1,055 reviews. When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild.
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The Egg and I, first published in 1945, is a humorous memoir by American author Betty MacDonald about her adventures and travels as a young wife on a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in the US state of Washington.
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Betty MacDonald. MacDonald was born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard in Boulder, Colorado. Her official birth date is given as March 26, 1908, although federal census returns seem to indicate 1907. Her family moved to the north slope of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in 1918, moving to the Laurelhurst neighborhood a year later and finally ...
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Betty married Donald C. MacDonald in 1942 and moved to Vashon Island in Puget Sound, where she wrote most of her books. In 1945 she published The Egg and I, a humorous memoir her experiences with her first husband on the chicken farm.
Anne Wellman's biography of American author Betty MacDonald, whose The Egg and I and other comic novels and children's stories were hugely popular in many countries. Betty's novels were semi-autobiographical, but how true were they? This biography tells the true story of MacDonald's life.
