In 1969, she was asked to provide a monthly column - "Up the Wall" - for Good Housekeeping magazine, a service she continued for six years. In 1967 she published a compilation of her columns, called by the same name, "At Wit´s End". Five years later "At Wit's End" was a staple in 500. Thirty-eight papers were buying her 400-500 word columns by the end of the first year. Her popularity grew quite rapidly and by the end of 1965, Three weeks after her first column appeared in the Dayton Journal-Herald, Erma signed a short-term contract with Newsday. Her editor sent some samples of her column, "At Wit´s End", to the Newsday newspaper syndicate and.
Erma Bombeck began writing for a local paper in 1964.
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