Dates:
February 21, 1927 - April 22, 1996
Occupation:
humor columnist, journalist
Known for:
witty columns about suburban family life
About Erma Bombeck:
Erma Bombeck worked as a journalist, first in Dayton, Ohio, right out of high school, interrupting her career for college and then, after marriage, leaving the work force when her first child was born.
Eleven years later, Erma Bombeck began a weekly humor column, focusing on the life of a suburban family. It soon became twice weekly, later three times; by 1968 it was syndicated in 200 newspapers and by the late 1970s in over 800.
Erma Bombeck died in 1996, shortly after receiving a kidney transplant.
