Erma Louise Bombeck (née Fiste; February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from ...

Though Dayton’s beloved Erma Bombeck wrote thousands upon thousands of words about domestic life, drawing from her own experiences as a woman and mother, she didn’t want her life to be written about ...

I picked up a copy of “Motherhood, the Second Oldest Profession” in a thrift store the other day. The title made me laugh, as it must have made millions of other book buyers laugh many, many years ago ...