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. Piggle-Wiggle series, protected day and "Knight" in a Brodart cover.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. Betty MacDonald died way too young a few months after this book was released. Piggle-Wiggle series became her most popular books for children, written while she was living on Vashon Island, where her farm has since been converted to a bed & breakfast. As for the author, Betty MacDonald saw humor in everything, especially herself, even during bouts of depression and her nine-month stint at the Firlands tuberculosis sanitarium, and she wasn't afraid to write about it. Knight's artwork has found its way into magazines, greeting cards, posters, and record albums, to name a few. (See photo.) This book is illustrated by Hilary Knight, best known for illustrating Kay Thompson's Eloise just two years earlier. Very Good with previous owner's name on the ffep and a bookplate on the rear cover in Very Good Minus lightly clipped (not affecting the $2.50 price) dust jacket with edge wear, some chipping, slight soiling (including lightly penciled owner - talk about paranoid!), and very teeny closed tears.
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