Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How to Get from Monday to Friday … In Twelve Days
Nonfiction work
By: Erma Bombeck
Date: 1979
Source: Bombeck, Erma. Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How to Get from Monday to Friday … In Twelve Days. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979, 19–20, 31–33.
About the Author: Erma (Fiste) Bombeck (1927–1996) grew up in a working-class family in Dayton, Ohio. In 1964 she began writing a weekly humor column for a local newspaper that eventually was titled "At Wit's End" and that appeared in more than eight-hundred newspapers nationally. Bombeck also released a series of bestsellers, including The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (1976) and If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? (1978).
Introduction
According to the 1970 U.S. Census, for the first time in American history more people lived in suburban areas than in cities or on farms. It was a trend that began with the...
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