![]() ![]() ![]() 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.Įrma Fiste was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, to a working-class family, and was raised in Dayton. ![]() By the 1970s, her columns were read semi-weekly by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers in the U.S. She also published 15 books, most of which became bestsellers.īetween 1965 and Ap– 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. Erma Louise Bombeck ( née Fiste Febru– 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. ![]()
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