The Best of Dear Abby

About the Author

In 1956, the San Francisco Chronicle gave a thirty-seven-year-old homemaker named Mrs. Pauline Phillips the chance to be its advice columnist. She chose and copyrighted a pen name, Abigail Van Buren, and Dear Abby was born.

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