Erma Louise Fiste (1927-02-21)February 21, 1927 Bellbrook, Ohio, U.S.
Died
April 22, 1996(1996-04-22) (aged 69) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation
Humorist, syndicated columnist, writer
Education
University of Dayton
Years active
1965–1996
Spouse
Bill Bombeck (m. 1949)
Children
3[1]
Erma Louise Bombeck (néeFiste; February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996. She also published 15 books, most of which became bestsellers.
Between 1965 and April 17, 1996 – five days before her death – Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, using broad and sometimes eloquent humor, chronicling the ordinary life of a Midwestern suburban housewife.[2][3][4] By the 1970s, her columns were read semi-weekly by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.[5] Her work stands as a humorous chronicle of middle-class life in America after World War II, among the generation of parents who produced the Baby Boomers.
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^McCarty, Mary (January 13, 2018). "Bill Bombeck, husband of famed Dayton writer, dies at 90". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
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^Oliver, Myrna (April 23, 1996). "Erma Bombeck, Columnist, Dies After Transplant; Writers: The homemaker-turned-humor author and speaker succumbs to complications at age 69". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 23 May 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
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