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erma bombeck collection skip to content erma bombeck collection menu home about erma s life collection writers workshop contact erma bombeck meet the woman who made the world laugh erma bombeck a 1949 graduate of the university of dayton became a household name in the 1970s and 1980s she spoke for the women of an entire generation revealing that being a housewife and a mother came with its own sets of concerns and wasn t necessarily a glamorous occupation she wrote with hilarity and wit but before she was erma bombeck she was erma fiste an aspiring writer she wrote for several university of dayton publications it was during her time at ud that she developed her humorous writing style which would stay with her throughout her career after graduation bombeck began a column operation dustrag in 1952 for the journal herald in dayton she continued to write the column until the arrival of her daughter betsy the following year in 1964 she began writing a humorous column zone 59 for the kettering oakwood times a suburban paper that s when glenn thompson editor of the journal herald spotted her work and offered her 50 a week for two columns three weeks later her column at wit s end was picked up nationally by the newsday newspaper syndicate within only a few years erma s column was appearing in more than 500 newspapers around the country making her a household name at the height of her popularity 900 newspapers syndicated her column to an audience of 30 million people facebook x youtube instagram website powered by wordpress com privacy erma bombeck collection sign up log in copy shortlink report this content manage subscriptions loading comments write a comment email required name required website