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Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I.
Betty MacDonald, Don (whom nearly everyone confused with Bob, Betty's first husband who featured prominently in The Egg and I ), Anne, and Joan became instant celebrities, appearing in a multi-page Life magazine spread on March 18, 1946.
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.
- Betty Bard. MacDonald
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Betty MacDonald published The Egg and I in 1945, near the end of the war. It’s a smartly written and very funny memoir of life as a young wife on a rustic chicken farm on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Her book topped the best seller list for ages and made her famous.
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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 a...
Aug 20, 2022 · Betty MacDonald (March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author of humorous memoirs and children’s 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.
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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.
