On Wednesday, Pauline Phillips — the celebrated columnist and beloved American icon who dispensed advice as Dear Abby — died at
Phillips first started the long running “Dear Abby” advice columnn in the The San Francisco Chronicle in 1956 as a 37-year-old housewife under the pen name “Abigail Van Buren." (Abigail from the Bible and Van Buren from
Phillips first started the long running “Dear Abby” advice columnn in the The San Francisco Chronicle in 1956 as a 37-year-old housewife under the pen name “Abigail Van Buren." (Abigail from the Bible and Van Buren from
Since 1956, trouble-plagued Americans have been writing letters to “Dear Abby,” a clever advice column offering words of wisdom to troubled readers. The woman behind the pen name “Abigail Van Buren” was Pauline “Popo” Friedman Phillips, who died
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