Who was Irma Bombeck?

Erma Louise Bombeck (née Fiste; February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s.

Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became bestsellers. From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, using broad and sometimes eloquent humor, chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife.

By the 1970s, her columns were read twice-weekly by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. Erma Fiste was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, to a working-class family, and was raised in Dayton.

She became very famous when she wrote, 'If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?' The hilarious #1 New York Times bestseller was Erma Bombeck's take on marriage and family life is “fun from cover to cover”. Ever since she was a child, Erma Bombeck has been an expert worrier, and married life has only honed that skill.