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Abigail Van Buren

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Abigail Van Buren
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Character Information
Gender:
Female ♀
Status:
Alive
Alias(es): Dear Abby
Hair: Brown
Occupation: Syndicated columnist
Relatives: Twin sister: Ann Landers
First appearance: "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"


Abigail Van Buren wrote the syndicated advice column "Dear Abby" since 1956.

History[edit]

Dear Abby was stored at the offices of the Springfield Shopper newspaper where she slept for 23 hours a day along with Ann Landers.

Behind the Laughter[edit]

Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips who wrote Dear Abby and her identical twin sister Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer who wrote Ask Ann Landers became embittered and estranged rivals over the dueling syndicated advice columns.

Phillips died in 2013, but because of her diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease the Dear Abby column had been written since 2000 by her daughter Jeanne Phillips.

Appearances[edit]