Erma Bombeck and her List of Books

Erma Louise (Harris) Bombeck (February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996), born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life in the second half of the 20th century.

Life and career

Born in Dayton, Ohio, Bombeck graduated from the University of Dayton in 1949 with a degree in English. She started her career in 1949 as a reporter for the Dayton Journal Herald, but after marrying school administrator Bill Bombeck, a college friend, she left the job and raised three children.As the children grew she started writing At Wit's End, telling self-deprecating tales about the life of a housewife. It debuted in the Kettering-Oakwood Times in 1964. She was paid $3 per column.Growing popularity led At Wit's End to be nationally syndicated in 1965, and eventually it ran three times a week in more than 700 newspapers. The column was collected in many best-selling books, and her fame was such that a television sitcom was based on her. The series, Maggie, ran for eight shows in 1982 before being cancelled.In 1971, the Bombecks moved to Paradise Valley, Arizona.Bombeck had autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, a common genetic disorder shared by playwright Neil Simon and by fashion commentator Steven Cojocaru. In 1996 worsening health forced her to have a kidney transplant, and she died of complications that year. She is interred in the Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.

Books

• The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank - i have it already
• At Wit's End - i have it already
• If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?- i have it already
• I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression - i have it already
• Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession - i have it already

Books that I need to have:

• When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home
• Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own (written with Bil Keane) - i already read this
• Family - The Ties that Bind... and Gag!
• Aunt Erma's Cope Book
• A Marriage Made in Heaven or Too Tired for an Affair
• Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
• I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise: Children Surviving Cancer
• All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room