Betty MacDonald
| Betty MacDonald | |
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| Born | Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard March 26, 1908 Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
| Died |
February 7, 1958 (aged 49) Seattle, Washington |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Autobiography, Children's literature |
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| Spouse | Robert Eugene Heskett (m. July 1927 – c. 1931) Donald C. MacDonald (m. April 24, 1942– ) |
| Children | Anne MacDonald Canham Joan MacDonald Keil |
| Relatives | (sisters) Mary Bard (Jensen), Dorothea, Sylvia, Alison (brother) Sydney Cleveland Bard |
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Betty MacDonald (March 26, 1908 [some sources indicate 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. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books. She is associated with the Pacific Northwest, especially Washington state.
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 settling in the Roosevelt neighborhood in 1922, where she graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1924.
MacDonald married Robert Eugene Heskett (1895–1951) at age 20 in July 1927; they lived on a chicken farm in the Olympic Peninsula's Chimacum Valley, near Center and a few miles south of Port Townsend. She left Heskett in 1931 and returned to Seattle, where she worked at a variety of jobs to support their daughters Anne and Joan; after the divorce the ex-spouses had virtually no contact. She spent nine months at Firland Sanatorium near Seattle in 1937–1938 for treatment of tuberculosis. On April 24, 1942 she married Donald C. MacDonald (1910–1975) and moved to Vashon Island, where she wrote most of her books. The MacDonalds moved to California's Carmel Valley in 1956.
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