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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 published fifteen books, most of which became bestsellers.
Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist, and television personality, was primarily identified as a housewife and mother. Because she knew it so well, she was able to offer the housewife's-eye-view of the world in her writing.
Erma Bombeck (born February 21, 1927, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.—died April 22, 1996, San Francisco, California, U.S.) was an American humorist who turned her views of daily life in the suburbs into satirical newspaper columns and such best-selling books as I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression (1973); The Grass Is Always Greener over the ...
3 lut 2021 · Is the suburban home in the play supposed to be her personal heaven? Hell? Both? I ask because Erma's relationship with her children, who are represented by offstage voices, gave me pause. As...
Bombeck, Erma (1927–1996) American humor columnist and author. Born Erma Louise Fiste on February 21, 1927, in Dayton, Ohio; died on April 22, 1996, in San Francisco, California; daughter and only child of Cassius (a laborer for the city of Dayton) and Erma (Haines) Fiste; attended Patterson Vocation High School, Dayton; awarded B.A. from ...
23 kwi 1996 · On Aug. 13, 1949, she married William Lawrence Bombeck, a high school teacher and later a principal, who became her financial manager when she started making money from her writing.
Following college, she married Bill Bombeck, an educator, and decided to become a fulltime housewife. They adopted a daughter, who was joined by two sons. It is at this time they moved into their Centerville, Ohio house and Erma began to work on a “housewife column” for the Kettering-Oakwood Times.
