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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"/>

By 2002, when Phillips suffered from the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter, Jeanne, assumed all the writing responsibilities of Dear Abby. After the family's announcement of Pauline's illness, Jeanne assumed the pen name '''Abigail Van Buren'''; from 1987 until her mother's retirement, Jeanne had been co-writing the column with her mother.<ref name="Abby">{{cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/DrJohnson/story?id=128029&page=1|title='Dear Abby' Struggles With Alzheimer's|date=12 February 2010|author=Johnson, Dr. Tim|publisher=ABC News|accessdate=26 September 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-08-07/news/0208070300_1_jeanne-phillips-dear-abby-eppie-lederer|title=Dear Abby creator has Alzheimer's, family announces|date=7 August 2002|publisher=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=26 September 2010}}</ref>

She was the [[identical twins|twin]] sister to [[Eppie Lederer]], the woman known for writing the '[[Ask Ann Landers]]' column.

==Biography==

Pauline Esther Friedman was born an [[identical twin]]; her sister, [[Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer|Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer]], wrote the [[Ann Landers]] column from 1955 until her death from [[multiple myeloma]] in 2002, at age 83. Their parents, [[Russian Jewish]] immigrants, settled in [[Sioux City, Iowa]] where they grew up. The girls went by the nicknames "Popo" (Pauline)  and "Eppie" (Esther). Both are alumnae of Central High School <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siouxcityhistory.org/sites/more.php?id=47_0_3_0_M |title=Central High School}}</ref> ("The Castle on the Hill") in Sioux City and [[Morningside College]]; the two sisters also wrote for the college newspaper. In 1939, they were married in a joint wedding ceremony on their birthday.<ref name="Ink">{{cite web|url=http://www.jodyewing.com/jeanne_phillips_8_01.html|title=Daughter Helps Keep 'Abby' Ink Flowing |author=Ewing, Jody|date=23 August 2001|publisher=Ewing, Jody|accessdate=26 September 2010}}</ref>

An honorary member of [[Women in Communications]], the [[American College of Psychiatrists]], and the [[National Council of Jewish Women]], Phillips is the author of six books:  ''Dear Abby'', ''Dear Teenager'', ''Dear Abby on Marriage'', ''Where Were You When President Kennedy was Shot?'', ''The Dear Abby Wedding Planner'', and ''The Best of Dear Abby''. "The Dear Abby Show" aired on the CBS Radio Network for 12 years. (Source: Universal Press Syndicate historical files.)

==Career==
Pauline's writing career that led to "Dear Abby" began in January 1956 when she was 37 and new to the Greater San Francisco Area.  Sometime during this period she phoned the editor of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' and said that she could write a better advice column than the one she had been reading in the newspaper.<ref name="Abby"/>

She chose the name "Abigail Van Buren" because she was inspired by the [[Bible]] and a president. Her chosen first name was from the [[Old Testament]] for  [[Abigail]] the widow of Nabel who later married King David. Her last name mirrored the last name of U.S. president [[Martin Van Buren]].<ref name="Ander">{{cite news |title=At 72, 'Dear Abby' Says Retirement Is A Dirty Word |author=Ander, Marsha S. |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/s/InfoWeb/aggdocs/AWNB/0EB04D391BB2E2F9/0D0CB57AB53DF815 |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |date=1991-06-08 |accessdate=2011-09-14 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/61hknl0Nb |archivedate=2011-09-14 }}</ref>

After hearing her modest credentials, Stanleigh "Auk" Arnold wanted only to get this self-styled journalist out of his San Francisco Chronicle office, so he gave her some letters in need of answers; Phillips had her replies back to the Chronicle the same day.<ref name="Abby"/>  When asked what she considered her greatest accomplishment, Phillips was quick to say, simply, “surviving”. (Source: Universal Press Syndicate historical files.)

As competing columnists, the sisters occasionally clashed; in 1956, Phillips offered her column to the ''[[Sioux City Journal]]'' at a reduced price, provided that the paper refused Lederer's column; ''[[Life Magazine]]'' reported on the offer in 1958.<ref name="Ink"/>

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]

{{Universal Press columns}}

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