Erma Louise Bombeck , born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life humorously, in the second half of the 20th century. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became best-sellers.

From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck published over 4,000 newspaper humor articles. By the 1970s, her witty columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of 900 newspapers of the U.S. and Canada.