Pauline Phillips

Pauline Phillips (born July 4, 1918) is an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the "Dear Abby" column in 1956. Married to Morton Phillips, the couple have two children, a son, Edward Jay Phillips, and a daughter, Jeanne Phillips.

By 2002, when Phillips suffered from the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter Jeanne had assumed all the writing responsibilities of Dear Abby. After the family's announcement of Pauline's illness, Jeanne assumed the pen name Abigail Van Buren; from 1987 until her mother's retirement, Jeanne had been co-writing the column with her mother.

She is the twin sister of the late Eppie Lederer, professionally known as Ann Landers.