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| Betty MacDonald | 1908 - 1958 Born 1908 Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
Died 1958 Washington Seattle, Washington, USA |
After Wikipedia...Betty MacDonald (1908–1958), born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard, was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiography, but who is now perhaps best known for the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books. She is associated with the Pacific Northwest, especially Washington state.
MacDonald was born Elizabeth Anne Campbell Bard in Boulder, Colorado, in 1908. Her family moved from Butte, Montana, to the north slope of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in 1918, moving to the Laurelhurst neighborhood a year later and finally settling in the Roosevelt neighborhood in 1924, where she graduated from Roosevelt High School.
Elizabeth "Betty" Bard married insurance salesman Robert Heskett in 1927, and the couple moved to a farm in the Olympic Peninsula's Chimacum Valley, near the towns of Port Hadlock and Port Townsend, Washington. They had two daughters, Anne and Joan, raised chickens and lived the experiences later described in MacDonald's best seller, The Egg and I.
She left Bob Heskett in 1931 and returned to Seattle. In 1942, she married Donald C. MacDonald and moved to Vashon Island, where she wrote most of her books. Anne and Joan were adopted by Don MacDonald. The MacDonalds moved to California's Carmel Valley in 1956. MacDonald died in Seattle of cancer in 1958.
MacDonald's first book, The Egg and I, was published in 1945, just after the end of World War II. It became an instant bestseller. Depicting her life on the Chimacum Valley chicken farm, it also introduced the characters Ma and Pa Kettle, who were featured in the movie version of The Egg and I. Ma and Pa Kettle (portrayed by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) were so popular a series of nine films were later made featuring them.
MacDonald wrote three more autobiographical books, including The Plague and I about her stay in a sanitarium for tuberculosis, and later a series of children's books featuring "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" that is still popular today. Her works have been published in numerous languages and countries.
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