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Also known as Erma Louise Bombeck, Erma Louise Fiste, Erma Fiste

American humorist and writer (1927–1996)

Person · Open Library

Works
31

Top works

  • Stories for the Family's Heart
  • I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow up, I Want to Go to Boise
  • Aunt Erma's Cope Book
  • If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
  • Motherhood

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1927-02-27
Active to
1996-04-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
50
Total plays
501

Tags

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Quotes

  • The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
  • If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
  • If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
  • I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
  • You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
  • It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else*

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Key facts

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)

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Encyclopedic overview

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. Fifteen books of her humor have been published; most became bestsellers.

Between 1965 and April 17, 1996 – five days before her death – Bombeck wrote over four thousand newspaper columns, using broad and sometimes eloquent humor, chronicling the ordinary life of a Midwestern suburban housewife. By the 1970s, her columns were read semi-weekly by 30 million readers of the nine hundred newspapers in the United States and Canada. 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Erma Bombeck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.