The Plague and I (1948), describing her nine-month stay at the Firlands tuberculosis sanitarium the character of Kimi is the writer Monica Sone.MacDonald also published three other semi-autobiographical books: The characters become so popular a series of nine more films were made featuring them.įurther information: The Egg and I, The Egg and I (film), and Ma and Pa Kettle The books introduced the characters Ma and Pa Kettle, who also were featured in the movie version of The Egg and I. Her husband (simply called "Bob" in the book) was called "Bob MacDonald" in the film, as studio executives were keen not to raise the matter of MacDonald's divorce in the public consciousness. In the film of The Egg and I, made in 1947, MacDonald was played by Claudette Colbert. The book, published on October 3, 1945, was number one on The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list for 43 weeks International Pictures bought the movie rights for $100,000 in 1946.
It first appeared as a serialized abridgement in the June through August, 1945, issues of The Atlantic. MacDonald rose to fame when her first book, The Egg and I, was published in 1945. MacDonald (1910–1975) and moved to Vashon Island, where she wrote most of her books. Heskett died in 1951 after being “stabbed in a fight.” She spent nine months at Firland Sanatorium near Seattle in 1937–1938 for treatment of tuberculosis. After the divorce the ex-spouses had virtually no contact. Upon returning to Seattle, she worked at a variety of jobs to support their daughters Anne and Joan. She left Heskett in 1931 and filed for divorce. MacDonald attended the University of Washington for one year before she 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. 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.
(Another sister, Sylvia, died in infancy.) Betty Bard spent her childhood in Mexico, Montana, and Idaho. In adulthood, MacDonald's sister Mary Bard (Jensen) was also a published author. Betty had three sisters: Mary Bard, Dorothea Bard, and Alison Bard and one brother, Sydney Cleveland Bard. Her parents were Harvard-educated mining engineer Darsie Bard and his wife Elsie Sanderson, called Sydney. Her official birth date is given as March 26, 1908, although federal census returns seem to indicate 1907. She is associated with the Pacific Northwest, especially Washington. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books. Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard Ma – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I.
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