Heather Henderson

The Audiobook:Chronologically, this book takes place after her misadventures on a chicken ranch—the subject of Betty’s first book, The Egg and I—and before her account of a year spent in a tuberculosis sanatorium, recounted in The Plague and I (both...

“Relive the story of an ill-fated commercial flight that was doomed before it was ever airborne; and find out how it may one day save your life—if it hasn’t already.”—Chris Mendenhall, Air Traffic Controller, Tinker AFBOn a cold winter night, a...

The war created nearly insoluble housing problems in Seattle, so when Betty MacDonald remarried during it, she and her new husband, Don, were unable to find anything suitable. They turned to the small islands within commuting distance, but tours of...

Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children’s literature, with the title character’s name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook: a subconscious bias...

Thanks to vaccines, tuberculosis is rare in North America today and, thanks to antibiotics, relatively treatable. This wasn’t the case in 1938, when Betty MacDonald was diagnosed.“Perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read. But then each time I read The...