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| x Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (pronounced /ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as...
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| x Julia Child |
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Julia Child (August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author and television personality. She introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs, notably The...
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| x Stephen Jay Gould |
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Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent...
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| x Ann Landers |
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Ruth Crowley and Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer (July 4, 1918 - June 22, 2002) were the main writers behind the pseudonymous syndicated advice column Ask Ann Landers. For about 45 years, the column was a regular feature in many newspapers...
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| x Margo Coleman |
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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...
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| x Pauline Phillips |
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Pauline Phillips (born July 4, 1918 as Pauline "Popo" Esther Friedman) is an advice columnist and radio show host who founded the "Dear Abby" column in 1956. The current Dear Abby is her first-born child and only daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now...
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| x Will Rogers |
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William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. He was the father of U.S. Representative and WWII veteran Will Rogers, Jr....
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| x Walter Winchell |
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Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio commentator. He invented the "gossip column" while at the New York Evening Graphic.
Born Walter Winschel in New York City, he started performing in vaudeville...
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| x Judith Martin |
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Judith Martin (née Perlman, born September 13, 1938), better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American journalist, author, and etiquette authority. Martin's uncle was the distinguished economist and labor historian Selig Perlman.
Martin was...
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| x Walter Lippmann |
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Walter Lippmann (23 September 1889 – 14 December 1974) was an American intellectual who was a writer, reporter, and political commentator, who twice was awarded, in 1958 and 1962, a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated newspaper column, “Today and...
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| x Erma Bombeck |
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Erma Louise Bombeck (February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996), born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life humorously from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck...
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| x John C. Dvorak |
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John C. Dvorak (born April 5, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is an American columnist and broadcaster in the areas of technology and computing. His writing extends back to the 1980s, when he was a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak is also...
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| x Savage Love |
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Savage Love is a syndicated sex-advice column by Dan Savage. The column appears weekly in several dozen newspapers, mainly free newspapers in the U.S. and Canada, but also newspapers in Europe and Asia. It started in 1991 with the first issue of the...
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| x William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966...
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| x Marilyn vos Savant |
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Marilyn vos Savant (pronounced /ˌvɑs səˈvɑːnt/; born August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ". Since 1986 she...
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| x Molly Ivins |
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Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was a populist American newspaper columnist, political commentator, humorist and bestselling author from Austin, Texas.
Ivins was born in Monterey, California and raised in Houston, Texas...
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| x Dan Savage |
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Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor. Savage is known for penning the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. Its tone is frank in its...
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| x Eric Alterman |
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Eric Alterman (b. January 14, 1960) is a liberal American journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator, possibly best known for the political weblog named Altercation, which was hosted by MSNBC.com from 2002 until 2006, moved to Media...
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| x Drew Pearson |
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Andrew Russell Pearson (December 13, 1897–September 1, 1969), known professionally as Drew Pearson, and born in Evanston, Illinois, was one of the most well-known American "yellow-"journalists of his day. He was best known for his muckraking...
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| x Westbrook Pegler |
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Francis James Westbrook Pegler (August 2, 1894 – June 24, 1969) was an American journalist and writer. Known as a fierce opponent of both fascism and communism, he later was a spokesman for the John Birch Society. Pegler, a Roman Catholic, was...
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| x Hugh Samuel Johnson |
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Hugh Samuel Johnson (August 5, 1882 – April 15, 1942) American soldier and National Recovery Administration official.
He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1882. After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1903, Johnson became an...
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| x Mary McGrory |
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Mary McGrory (August 22, 1918 – April 20, 2004) was a liberal American journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list for writing "daily hate Nixon articles."
Born in Roslindale, Boston...
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| x Herb Caen |
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Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the San Francisco Chronicle from the late 1930s until his death, with an...
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| x Anna Quindlen |
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Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for...
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| x The French Chef |
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The French Chef is an influential television cooking show created by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on television. The French Chef...
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| x Dorothy Thompson |
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Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893, Lancaster, New York – January 30, 1961, Portugal) was an American journalist, who was noted by Time magazine in 1939 as one of the two most influential women in America, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt.
She is...
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| x Andrew Weil |
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Andrew Thomas Weil (Born June 8, 1942) is an American author and physician, best known for establishing and popularizing the field of integrative medicine. Weil is the author of several best-selling books and runs a website and monthly newsletter,...
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| x Emily Yoffe |
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Emily Yoffe (born 1955) is a journalist, a regular contributor to Slate magazine and the NPR radio show Day to Day. She has also written for The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Yoffe began her...
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| x Ellen Goodman |
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Ellen Goodman (April 11 1941, Newton MA) is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.
Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the...
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| x Mark Morford |
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Mark Morford is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com. His opinion and culture-commentary column is called Notes & Errata and is published every Wednesday and Friday. His writing is often controversial and offbeat, and almost...
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Notes & Errata is the social commentary column written by Mark Morford for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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| x Jack Anderson |
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Jackson Northman "Jack" Anderson (October 19, 1922 – December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his...
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| x Dahlia Lithwick |
Dahlia Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. Before joining Slate as a freelancer in...
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| x Randy Cohen |
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Randy Cohen is an American Emmy Award-winning writer and humorist known since 1999 as the author of The Ethicist column in The New York Times Magazine. Cohen's column is syndicated throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Cohen graduated from the University...
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| x Cynthia Tucker |
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Cynthia Tucker (born 1955 in Monroeville, Alabama) is an American syndicated columnist, and the editor of the opinion section of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her courageous,...
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| x Mona Charen |
Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated conservative columnist, political analyst, and the author of two best-selling books, Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (2003) and Do-Gooders: How Liberals...
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| x Jeanne Phillips |
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Jeanne Phillips (born in 1944 or 1945) is an advice columnist who writes the advice column Dear Abby.
She is the daughter of Pauline Phillips, who founded "Dear Abby" in 1956, and her husband, Morton Phillips. In a Dear Abby column on December 12,...
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| x Heywood Broun |
Heywood Campbell Broun (pronounced /ˈbruːn/; December 7, 1888 – December 18, 1939) was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The...
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| x Creators Syndicate |
Creators Syndicate is an independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns for daily newspapers. It was founded in 1987 by Richard S. Newcombe, and is based in Los Angeles. Creators was one of the first syndicates to allow its clients...
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Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, is the world's largest independent press syndicate and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content. Some of the most popular...
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| x Carolyn Hax |
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Carolyn Hax (born December 5, 1966 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a writer and columnist for the Washington Post and the author of the advice column Carolyn Hax (formerly titled Tell Me About It). The column is geared toward people under the age of...
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| x Dear Abby |
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Dear Abby is the name of the notable advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name Abigail Van Buren and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name.
According to Pauline...
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| x Dear Prudence |
Dear Prudence is an advice column appearing weekly in the online magazine Slate and syndicated to over 200 newspapers.
The column was initiated on 20 December 1997. "Prudence" was a pseudonym, and the author's true identity was not revealed at the...
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| x Georgie Anne Geyer |
Georgie Anne Geyer (born April 2, 1935) is an American journalist and columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns focus on foreign affairs issues and appear in approximately 120 newspapers in North and Latin America. She is the author...
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An advice column is a column at a magazine or newspaper written by an advice columnist (colloquially known as an agony aunt, or agony uncle if the columnist is a male). The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice...
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A food column is a type of newspaper column dealing with food. It may be focused on recipes, health trends, or improving efficiency. It is generally geared towards gourmets or "foodies". Since 1994, food writers have also written columns and blogs...
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| x Shaunti Feldhahn |
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Shaunti Reidinger Feldhahn is the best-selling author of For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men. Feldhahn received her Bachelor’s degree in government and economics from The College of William & Mary in Virginia (Class of...
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| x New York Times: Health Update |
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The New York Times's Jane Brody, "Personal Health" columnist, discusses the latest health news.
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| x New York Times: Ethicist |
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Randy Cohen, Times Magazine columnist, answers readers'
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