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  <name><![CDATA[Erma Bombeck]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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.

For 31 years since 1965, Erma Bombeck published 4,000 newspaper articles. Already in the 1970s, her witty columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of 900 newspapers of USA and Canada. Besides, the majority of her 15 books became instant best sellers.
]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Dayton, Ohio</hometown>  <born_at>02/21/1927</born_at>  <died_at>04/22/1996</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?]]></title>
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  <published>1971</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank]]></title>
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  <published>1976</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Family - The Ties that Bind...And Gag!]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Erma Bombeck]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.96</average_rating>
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  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Erma Bombeck]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Erma Bombeck]]></name>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[At Wit's End]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Erma Bombeck]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
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  <published>1967</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
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  <published>1940</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Erma Bombeck]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>205</ratings_count>
  <published>1973</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Marriage Made in Heaven: Or Too Tired for an Affair]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Erma Bombeck]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.05</average_rating>
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  <published>1993</published>  
  
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        <book id="996551">
  <title><![CDATA[Aunt Erma's Cope Book]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Erma Bombeck]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
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  <published>1979</published>  
  
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