Author Description

The Egg and I was first published in 1945. It is a humorous memoir by the American author Betty MacDonald. She shares her adventures and travels as a young wife on a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.Onions in the Stew is the fourth book in a series of humorous autobiographical books by Betty MacDonald about her life on Vashon Island with her second husband and her daughters during the World War II years.(Reprint)