There's a quote going around from Erma Bombeck, the late, legendary essayist: "When humor goes, there goes civilization." The ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Erma Bombeck captured the frustrations of her generation by asking, "If ...

In 2004, University of Dayton alumnus Ralph Hamberg and his wife, Cindy, gave a $100,000 gift to start a workshop endowment fund in memory of her cousin, Brother Tom Price, S.M. This University of ...

The University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop is offering two all-expenses-paid writing residencies at the University of Dayton Marriott. “If your creative muse tends to show up in a ...

I contacted the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop at the University of Dayton in the Ohio city where she was raised and buried. Was the line from a column? An interview from her storied career satirizing ...

Erma Bombeck's smiling face is in the heart of the University of Dayton campus on a historical marker from the Ohio Bicentennial Commission and Ohio Historical Society. The Erma Bombeck Papers in the ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. On free speech, Jimmy Kimmel and civilization. Syndicated humor columnist Erma Bombeck holds up the Rose Parade News headline about herself. A quote attributed to ...