Erma Bombeck
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American humorist and writer (1927–1996)
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louise
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bellbrook
- Place of death
- San Francisco
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- University of Dayton
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1927-02-21
- date of death
- 1996-04-22
- cause of death
- kidney disease
- name in native language
- Erma Louise Bombeck
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- end of work period
- 1996-04-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
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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.