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Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life humorously, in the second half of the 20th century. For 31 years since 1965, Erma Bombeck published 4,000 newspaper articles. Already in the 1970s, her witty columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of 900 newspapers of USA and Canada. Besides, the majority of her 15 books became instant best sellers.
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
2013
2005
Thoughts on Life
2003
1998
1998
Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
1996
1995
At Wit's End, Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
1994
1993
1991
1989
The Ties That Bind…and Gag!
1987
1985
The Second Oldest Profession
1983
1979
1976
1971
1971
1970
1965
