Paula Becker (photo by David Ryder)
Paula Becker is a writer and historian living in Seattle, Washington. Her most recent book, A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve (Girl Friday Books) may be ordered here or from your favorite independent book store. Paula’s other books include A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction (a memoir) (University of Iowa Press), Looking For Betty MacDonald: The Egg, The Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and I (University of Washington Press); and (with Alan J. Stein) The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair And Its Legacy (Seattle Center Foundation, 2011) and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington’s First World’s Fair (History Ink/HistoryLink in association with University of Washington Press, 2009). More than 300 of Paula’s essays documenting all aspects of Washington’s history appear on HistoryLink.org, the online encyclopedia of Washington state history.
A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve launched 9/8/2021 with an Elliott Bay Book Store virtual event. To watch the recording of this event, please click here. To watch a recording of Paula in discussion with poet and psychotherapist Donna James, please click here.
A House on Stilts was a finalist for the 2020 Washington State Book Award. To order A House on Stilts, please click here. 
To view a video preview of Looking For Betty MacDonald, please click here.
Looking For Betty MacDonald is available wherever books are sold. To purchase Looking For Betty MacDonald, please contact your local independent book seller, or click the cover to order through Indie Bound: The Washington Post named Looking For Betty MacDonald a 2016 Notable Nonfiction book.
To purchase Post-Hynotic Press audio book editions of Looking For Betty MacDonald, The Egg and I, The Plague and I, Anybody Can Do Anything, and Onions In The Stew, please click here.