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  1. 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.

  2. Nov 4, 1998 · On February 7, 1958, Betty MacDonald died of cancer in Seattle at age 50. The house where MacDonald wrote her books is located about a quarter of a mile south of Dolphin Point on the east side of Vashon Island. Today, visitors stop beside the road above to look down at the huge barn that the MacDonalds built.

  3. Sep 4, 2016 · Seattle writer Betty MacDonald (1907-1958) was a beloved best-selling humorist who wrote about her life with a biting sense of the absurd. But if she’d wanted to, she could have seen it as...

  4. Aug 20, 2022 · Betty MacDonald (March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author of humorous memoirs and childrens books, born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard in Boulder, Colorado. Her father was a mining engineer who moved the family around frequently before finally settling in Seattle, Washington in 1916.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. A popular writer in the 1940s and 1950s, Betty MacDonald turned the raw material from difficulties she faced into four humorous autobiographical books. She was born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard on March 26, 1908, in Boulder, Colorado, the daughter of Darsie Campbell Bard and Elsie Sanderson Bard .

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