In 1990, Erma Bombeck marked her 25th year writing a syndicated column for more
than 700 newspapers.
Erma's career began in Dayton, Ohio, where she was born, raised, and educated.
As a copy girl for the Dayton Journal Herald, she wrote obituaries and the
weather
forecast (her first bit of fiction). After five years with the women's department,
she retired to stay at home and raise three children. In 1965, Glenn Thompson,
executive editor, was responsible for putting her column on domesticity into
syndication.
Selected Publications
For Doubleday:
At Wit's End
"Just Wait Til You Have Children of Your Own!"
(with Bil Keane)
I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
For McGraw-Hill: (All on the NY Times Best Sellers List)
The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries—What am I Doing in the Pits?
Aunt Erma's Cope Book
Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession
Family—the Ties that Bind . . . and Gag!
For Harper and Row:
I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to go to Boise
(NY Times Best Seller)
For HarperCollins:
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, it's Time to Go Home
(NY Times
Best Seller)
A Marriage Made in Heaven . . . or Too Tired for an Affair (NY Times
Best Seller)
All I Know about Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room
Awards and Achievements
Named to the list of the "25 Most Influential Women in America" by The
World
Almanac since 1979
Named Grand Marshal of the 1986 Rose Parade
Named Grand Marshal of the 1992 Fiesta Bowl Parade
Received the American Cancer Society's 1990 Medal of Honor
Appointed by President Carter to
serve on the President's Advisory Committee
for Women when it was formed in 1978
Featured as the July 2, 1984 TIME Magazine cover story.
Internships
