Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End

Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End

Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End

Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End

Overview

From the writers of the smash hit Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins comes a comic look at one of our country’s most beloved voices, who captured the frustrations of her generation by asking, “If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?” Discover the story behind America’s beloved humorist who championed women’s lives with wit that sprang from the most unexpected place of all – the truth.

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Cautions

  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

Details

  • Genre: Biography
  • Time Period: Present Day, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s
  • Cast Attributes: All Women
  • Target Audience: Adult, Senior

Authors

Margaret Engel

Margaret Engel directs the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and was the managing editor of the Newseum. She was a reporter for the Washington Post, Des Moines Register and Lorain Journal, and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard. She and her twin wrote the play Red Hot Pa ...
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Allison Engel

Allison Engel has been a reporter for the Des Moines Tribune, San Jose Mercury and Pacific News Service, and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She was a speechwriter for former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack and lieutenant governor Sally Pederson and president of ...
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