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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.
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.
Aug 24, 2016 · A week after Martin was granted a divorce from first wife Betty McDonald, he and 22-year-old Jeanne Biegger wed on Sept. 1, 1949, at the Beverly Hills home of Herman Hover, owner of famed ...
- THR Staff
Join fans of the beloved American write Betty MacDonald (1908-58), who created The Egg and I, as well as Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, Ma & Pa Kettle, and many other literary and film characters.
In 1945, a first-time author named Betty MacDonald published a tart, smart and uncommonly funny memoir of the rocky years she’d spent as a young woman on an isolated Washington chicken farm.
- Jennifer Reese
Jan 1, 2016 · Betty Bard MacDonald (1907-1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II.
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Aug 14, 2007 · On October 3, 1945, Lippincott publishes Betty MacDonald's (1907-1958) debut book, The Egg and I. American readers flock to bookstores to purchase Egg, the loosely autobiographical story of MacDonald's years as a young bride on a chicken ranch in the Chimacum valley on the Olympic Peninsula.
