Bøker av 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.

Betty Bard MacDonald (19071958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle childrens 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 Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonalds 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 series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonalds archives, including materials never before seen by any researcher. Looking for Betty MacDonald, a biography of this endearing Northwest storyteller, reveals the story behind the memoirs and the difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona.Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lr6iVK4zWk

Chronicles the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909. Starting with the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897, this book recounts in detail the history of the fair that brought Seattle and Washington into the national spotlight.