![]() ![]() ![]() 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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