Erma Bombeck

Erma Louise Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck also publishedbooks, most of which became bestsellers. From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, using broad and sometimes eloquent humor, chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife. By the 1970s, her columns were read twiceweekly by 30160million readers of the 900 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.

Erma Fiste was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, to a workingclass family, and was raised in Dayton. Her parents were Erma and Cassius Edwin Fiste, who was the city crane operator. Young Erma lived with her elder paternal halfsister, Thelma. She began elementary school one year earlier than usual for her age, in 1932, and became an excellent student and an avid reader. She particularly enjoyed the popular humor writers of the time. After Ermas father died in 1936, she moved, with her mother, into her grandmothers home. In 1938 her mother remarried, to Albert Harris . Erma practiced tap dance and singing, and was hired by a local radio station for a childrens revue for eight years.

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