DEAR ABBY

'''Dear Abby''' is a syndicated advice column started in 1956 by Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips and currently written by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips. Abigail Van Buren has been the pen name used by both writers for the column. According to its publishers, the column is known for its "uncommon common sense and youthful perspective" and is read by more people than any other newspaper column worldwide.[1]

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Popularity

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Popularity

A measure of the Abby's national fame and of being synonymous with requests for help was illustrated the day after the 1964 U.S. Presidential election, a landslide victory for Lyndon Johnson. Nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin penned an illustration of the defeated candidate Barry Goldwater beginning to write a letter. The cartoon's caption: "Dear Abby..."
That year she was also the subject of a pop song, "Dear Abby" by The Hearts.

External links

★ Official Dear Abby Website

Further reading

★ Aronson, Virginia. ''Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren''. Women of achievement. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0791052974. (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 0396089062.

★ Van Buren, Abigail. ''The Best of Dear Abby''. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1981. ISBN 0836279077.