Originally started in 1956 by Pauline Phillips, what advice column is now written by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips?
Jeanne Phillips Jeanne Phillips Jeanne Phillips (; born 1942), also known as Abigail Van Buren, is an American advice columnist who has written for the advice column "Dear Abby." She is the daughter of Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips, who founded "Dear Abby" in 1956, and her husband, Morton Phillips. In a "Dear Abby" column on December 12, 2000, Pauline introduced Jeanne as co-creator of "Dear Abby". They began to share the byline "Abigail Van Buren", and both were pictured with the column. Jeanne officially assumed the mantle of "Dear Abby" in August 2002, when the Phillips family made the announcement that Pauline
Jeanne Phillips Beginning on July 22, 2002, Jeanne was attributed as the only writer of the column. Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, the distributor of the column, said: "Over the past couple of years, Pauline Phillips hasn't had any day-to-day activities with the column." Every day, her column is read by 110 million people and syndicated in about 1,400 newspapers. Every week, she gets from 5,000 to 10,000 letters and emails asking her for advice. Reading and replying to the mail sometimes takes her more than eight hours a day. After crafting a response, Phillips sets it aside. A