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Margo Howard (née Lederer; born 15 March 1940) is an American advice columnist, and the only child of advice columnist Eppie Lederer (better known by her pen name, Ann Landers) and business executive Julius Lederer.
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Biography
Early life and education
Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Brandeis University, but dropped out to marry. She worked at the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily News, and wrote for The New Republic, People, The Nation, and Boston Magazine. She wrote a syndicated social commentary column "Margo" in the 1970s.
Career
For several years, Howard wrote the Dear Prudence column featured in Slate magazine. Dear Prudence also was featured on National Public Radio and syndicated in more than 200 newspapers. In February 2006, she left the Dear Prudence column, and now writes a Dear Margo column for Women on the Web (wowowow.com), and for Creators Syndicate.
Her aunt, Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips, wrote the Dear Abby column. Although her mother and aunt were twin sisters and close while growing up, an intense rivalry developed between them because of their columns. In an echo of that rivalry, Howard has had several public differences with her cousin Jeanne Phillips, who took over the Dear Abby column when her mother became ill with Alzheimer's disease.
Marriages and family
Howard has been married four times: first to John Coleman (1962–1967); second to Jules Furth (1972–1976); third to the actor Ken Howard (1977–1991); fourth (and currently) to Ronald Weintraub, a Boston cardiac surgeon. After her divorce from Howard, she retained the surname for professional use.
Howard has three children by Coleman: two daughters, Abra and Andrea, and a son actor and director Adam Coleman Howard.[1]
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Categories:- American advice columnists
- People from Chicago, Illinois
- People from Illinois
- Jewish American writers
- American Jews
- American journalists
- 1940 births
- Living people
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