![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The University honors Erma's legacy in other ways, too. Today, the University of Dayton’s College of Arts and Sciences and Alumni Association co-sponsor the biennial Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, which draws UD students and hundreds of aspiring and professional humor and human interest writers from across the country. She was still writing her column for Universal Press Syndicate and developing a new book for HarperCollins Publishers when she died from complications of a kidney transplant on April 22, 1996. Bombeck also appeared regularly on ABC's Good Morning America for 11 years. ![]() She wrote more than 4,500 columns and 12 books, nine of which made The New York Times’ Bestseller List. Her syndicated column, “At Wit’s End,” appeared in more than 900 newspapers. Bombeck, a 1949 UD alumna, is among the University’s most famous graduates.īombeck credited the University of Dayton with launching her writing career. Mary’s Hall, was part of a program to highlight significant Ohio people and places for the state’s 2003 bicentennial. ![]()
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