Erma Bombeck
American humorist and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Erma Louise Bombeck (née Fiste; 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.
Erma Bombeck | |
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Born | 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] |
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.