MacDonald was innate inside Boulder, Colorado, in 1908. Her personal moved from either Butte, Montana, to the north slope of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in 1918, leaving for Laurelhurst a year later & eventually settling inside Roosevelt in 1924, where she graduated from either Roosevelt High School. MacDonald married Robert Heskett around 1926. the recently few moved to a domestic in the Olympic Peninsula's Chimacum Valley, near Port Townsend. She left her married man within 1930 and returned to Seattle. Around 1942, she married Donald C. MacDonald & touched to Vashon Island, where she wrote virtually all of her books. A MacDonalds moved to California's Carmel Valley in 1956. MacDonald died around Seattle of cancer in 1958.

MacDonald rocketed to fame whilst her number 1 book, The Egg and I, was published good when World War II. It was the vast best seller. Depicting her life on a Chimacum Valley domestic, it likewise introduced the characters Ma and Pa Kettle, who were featured in the flick version of The Egg & We and so earned the film franchise of their have. She wrote ii extrthe autobiographical books & a series of babies's books that is however popular in todays world.

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Anybody Might Wash Anything Onions in the Stew A Plague & I The Egg and I Nancy & Plum Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ''Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic Howdy, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm''