# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pauline-phillips
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:55:04.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pauline-phillips"
name: "Pauline Phillips"
slug: "pauline-phillips"
description: "Pauline Esther Phillips, also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the well-known Dear Abby newspaper column in 1956. It became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, syndicated in 1,400 newspapers with 110 million readers."
tagline: "American advice columnist (1918-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pauline_Phillips_1961.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1918-07-04"
deathDate: "2013-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump