Margo Howard (born Margo Lederer, 15 March 1940 in Chicago, Illinois is an American advice columnist, and the only child of advice columnist Ann Landers and business executive Julius Lederer.
Howard 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 penned a syndicated social commentary column "Margo" in the ...
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Margo Howard (born Margo Lederer, 15 March 1940 in Chicago, Illinois is an American advice columnist, and the only child of advice columnist Ann Landers and business executive Julius Lederer.
Howard 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 penned a syndicated social commentary column "Margo" in the 1970s.
For several years, Howard wrote the Dear Prudence column that was featured in Slate magazine. Dear Prudence was also featured on National Public Radio and syndicated in over 200 newspapers. In February 2006, she left the Dear Prudence column, and now pens a Dear Margo column for Women on the Web (wowowow.com), and for creators.com.
Howard assisted her mother Esther Pauline Friedman with writing her Ann Landers column for many years prior to her mother's death in 2002. Howard decided that the column would not continue after her mother...
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