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Paula Becker - Looking for Betty Macdonald - 9780295999364 - V9780295999364
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Looking for Betty Macdonald

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Description for Looking for Betty Macdonald Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BGLA; DSBH; DSK; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 223 x 30. Weight in Grams: 496.

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. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald’s vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295999364
SKU
V9780295999364
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Paula Becker
Paula Becker is a staff historian at HistoryLink.org. She is the coauthor of The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington’s First World Fair.

Reviews for Looking for Betty Macdonald
"Paula Becker’s astute, affectionate and often startling Looking for Betty MacDonald is the first biography of this singular American writer. . . . The biography fills in crucial and sometimes shocking gaps in her story, rendering MacDonald’s achievements all the more extraordinary. . . . Becker is a historian and writes with a historian’s precision, but she has a fan’s ... Read more

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