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American humorist and writer (1927–1996)
Also known as: Erma Fiste, Erma Louise Bombeck, Erma Louise Fiste, Эрма Бомбек, أرما بومبك, エルマ・ボムベック
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- Jean Kerr1922–2003ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Witty suburban domestic humor about family life and motherhood, as in Please Don't Eat the Daisies. (AI reason)
Shirley Jackson1916–1965ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHer family memoirs Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons offer comic chronicles of chaotic household life. (AI reason)
Dave Barry1947–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSyndicated humor columns finding absurdity in everyday family and suburban life. (AI reason)
- Phyllis DillerReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Self-deprecating housewife humor skewering domesticity and marriage. (AI reason)
Art Buchwald1925–2007ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetNewspaper humor columns with gentle satire of American life. (AI reason)
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Betty MacDonald1907–1958ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetComic memoirs of domestic mishaps, as in The Egg and I. (AI reason)
- Lewis Grizzard1946–1994ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Folksy syndicated humor columns collected into books about ordinary American life. (AI reason)
Nora Ephron1941–2012ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWry personal essays about aging, womanhood and everyday indignities. (AI reason)
Anna Quindlen1952–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetNewspaper columns and essays on motherhood and family, warm and reflective. (AI reason)
Lisa Scottoline1955–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHumorous newspaper-column collections about family, mothers and daughters, co-written with Francesca Serritella. (AI reason)
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- I want to grow hair, I want to grow up, I want to go to Boise (1989)
- World Literature 1999
- If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits? (1978)
- When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home (1991)
- Family (1987)