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{{Infobox writer
| name                    = Pauline Phillips
| image                   =Pauline Phillips 1961.JPG
| caption                 = Phillips in 1961.
| birth_name               = Pauline Esther Friedman
| birth_date               = {{birth date and age|1918|07|04}}
| birth_place              = [[Sioux City, Iowa]], U.S.    
| occupation              = [[Advice column]]ist  
}}

'''Pauline Phillips''' (born July 4, 1918) is an [[United States|American]] advice columnist and radio show host who began the "[[Dear Abby]]" column in 1956. Married to Morton Phillips, the couple has two children, a son, Edward Jay Phillips, and a daughter, [[Jeanne Phillips]].<ref name="Abby"/>

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The sisters ostensibly reconciled in 1964, although some suggest the acrimony between them remained.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Landers.html|first=Robin|last=Judd|title=Ann Landers biography |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library}}</ref>

==Further reading==
===Books about Dear Abby===
* Aronson, Virginia. ''Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren''. Women of achievement. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0
-7910-5297-4. (children's book).
* Pottker, Janice, and Bob Speziale. ''Dear Ann, Dear Abby: The Unauthorized Biography of Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren''. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987. ISBN 0-396-08906-2.

===Books by Dear Abby===
* Van Buren, Abigail. ''Dear Abby''.  Illustrated by Carl Rose. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, [1958].
* Van Buren, Abigail. ''Dear teen-ager''. Illustrated by Roy Doty. [New York]: B. Geis Associates; distributed by Random House [1959].
* Van Buren, Abigail. ''Dear Abby on marriage''. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1962].
* Van Buren, Abigail. ''The Best of Dear Abby''. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1981. ISBN 0-8362-7907-7 ; 081613362X (lg. print.)
* Van Buren, Abigail. ''Dear Abby on planning your wedding''. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, c1988. ISBN 0-8362-7943-3.
* Van Buren, Abigail. ''Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?: memories and tributes to a slain president as told to Dear Abby''. Foreword by Pierre Salinger. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, c1993. ISBN 0-8362-6246-8.

== See also ==
* [[Ann Landers]]
* [[Poisoned candy scare]]
*[[List of newspaper columnists]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.dearabby.com Official Dear Abby Website]
* [http://news.yahoo.com/i/793 ''Dear Abby'' at Yahoo! News]

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