People who said things like "JEEESUS KEE-RIST" when they wanted to make a point. So much of Betty's humor was not to be found in novels of the times. Well, for one thing, it was funny as hell, the same kind of humor that we cultivated in my large and slightly dotty, dysfunctional family. Why? What could possibly be found in a book about chicken farming that could grab someone like me when I was just a pubescent kid? I read it when it first came out (I was thirteen at the time), and then I read it in 1946, then again in 1947 - and probably two or three more times between then and now. Her major contribution to American life and wit was a book titled The Egg and I, published in 1945.
Betty MacDonald was born in Idaho, and lived in the Puget Sound area for most of her life.
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