![]() ![]() ![]() She began elementary school one year earlier than usual for her age, in 1932, and became an excellent student and an avid reader. Young Erma lived with her elder paternal half-sister, Thelma. Her parents were Erma ( née Haines) and Cassius Edwin Fiste, who was the city crane operator. 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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