'Dear Abby' author Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94
'Dear Abby' author Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94
The author of widely syndicated advice column Dear Abby has died at 94 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, her publicist has said.
Pauline Friedman Phillips, known for her glib responses to readers, wrote under the name Abigail Van Buren.
Phillips launched the column in 1956 and she passed it to her daughter Jeanne Phillips in 2002.
The world's most widely distributed column, it has run in 1,400 newspapers with a daily readership of 100 million.
In 1956, Phillips was new to the San Francisco area when she called the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle to complain about an advice column the paper had run, her syndicate Universal Uclick said.
To her surprise, the editor invited the 37-year-old housewife in for a meeting, and after reading samples of her writing later, gave her a job.
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I remember reading Dear Abby when I was a child.
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