Pauline Phillips

Pauline Esther Phillips, nee Friedman ( born July 4, 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa; † January 16, 2013 in Minneapolis ), known under the pseudonym Abigail Van Buren, was an American columnist and radio presenter whose life coaching column in over 1,400 newspapers under the Title Dear Abby was printed. Your readership is estimated at over 100 million.

Pauline Esther and her identical twin sister Esther Pauline answered from the mid-1950s in U.S. newspapers than life counselor and readers' letters were in 1960, the most widely read authors of the United States. The column was printed in up to 1,400 newspapers, reaching more readers than any other column of their time. Pauline Phillips traded under the pen name Abigail Van Buren. Her column was called Dear Abby, her sister Esther Ask Ann Landers. From 1963 to 1975 Phillips moderated the daily radio show Dear Abby on CBS.

Life

Pauline Friedman (nicknamed " Po - po" ) was born the daughter of Jewish Russian immigrants in Sioux City to the world. Her mother was Rebecca Friedman (born Rushall ). Her father, Abraham B. Friedman, operated a chain of movie theaters.

Pauline and her twin sister both studied journalism and psychology together and wrote a gossip column for the student newspaper. Both played violin. Both married in a double wedding. With her husband Morton Phillips from Minneapolis she had two children, Edward Jay Phillips and Jeanne Phillips.

At the age of 37, the family moved to the area of ​​San Francisco. Phillips phoned the local newspaper San Francisco Chronicle and pretended to write better lyrics counselors than what they were reading in this newspaper so. She put the editor Stan Leigh " Auk " Arnold before their modest qualification papers, this gave her with some letters to the editor, with the proposal to formulate answers within a week. Pauline Phillips was already one and a half hours after the meeting back to the office and was hired immediately.

Your artist name Abigail Van Buren they chose after the prophetess Abigail in the Old Testament, to which David says:

Because of the successful application there was a life-long discord between the twin sisters. Her sister accused her of not to have agreed with her. She began writing a column counselor and tried in 1956, with a price dumping to oust their Pauline from some newspapers. Until 1964, there was an official reconciliation. In 1958 the two were the most widely read authors of the United States.

Both columnists journalistic entered new territory, because they attacked a wide range of reader questions and answered them with a sharp pen. In the early years up to 9000 letters came a week to the authors. The New York Times describes in her obituary for Pauline Phillips the style and themes of the two diversity than modern. You could have left the whiny fug the Victorian era of the former columnists behind and would operate the sober 20th century. Phillips was identified as liberal in their publications, but conservative in the private circle. On the question of a reader if the heavy 4 kg baby her daughter was not too heavy for a premature baby, because her son had married only five months ago, Phillips responded:

Both sister were known for their concise and direct answers.

Phillips was an honorary member of Women in Communications, the American College of Psychiatrists and the National Council of Jewish Women. She wrote six books: Dear Abby, Dear Girls, Dear Abby on Marriage, Where Were You When President Kennedy that shot, The Dear Abby Wedding Planner and The Best of Dear Abby? . The Dear Abby show ran on CBS 12 years in broadcasting.

2002 was diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease in Phillips, so that her daughter Jeanne 's column Dear Abby further led. She had been a co-author since 1987. Pauline Phillips died on January 16, 2013 at the age of 94 years.

Books on Dear Abby

  • Virginia Aronson: Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren. Women of achievement. Chelsea House Publishers, Philadelphia, 2000. ISBN 0-7910-5297-4 (English 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 from Dear Abby

  • Van Buren, Abigail. Dear Abby. Illustrated by Carl Rose. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice- Hall,
  • Van Buren, Abigail. Dear teen-ager. Illustrated by Roy Doty. [New York ]: B. Geis Associates; Distributor: Random House
  • Van Buren, Abigail. Dear Abby on marriage. New York: McGraw -Hill,
  • Van Buren, Abigail. The Best of Dear Abby. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1981, ISBN 0-8362-7907-7; . 081613362X (Large Edition)
  • Van Buren, Abigail. Dear Abby on planning your wedding. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel and, 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 McMeel and, c1993. ISBN 0-8362-6246-8
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