Betty MacDonald (1907¿1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children¿s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. The Plague and I takes up Betty¿s delightful misadventures where The Egg and I left off. She continued chronicling her life story with memoirs Anybody Can Do Anything and finally Onions in the Stew. She lived on Vashon Island in Washington¿s Puget Sound.