'Dear Abby' advice columnist Abigail Van Buren dies at age 94
Photo credit: AP | Pauline Friedman Phillips, who wrote under the name of Abigail Van Buren and was known to her readers as “Dear Abby,” attends the wedding of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Hyannis, Mass. (April 26, 1986)
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Pauline Friedman Phillips who, under the name Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running "Dear Abby" advice column followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94.
Publicist Gene Willis of Universal Uclick said Phillips died Wednesday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Phillips' column competed for decades with the advice column of Ann Landers,...
