She was 94.
After co-writing her column with her daughter, Jeanne,
starting in the mid-1990s, Phillips retired in 2002, and Jeanne took over the
writing on her own after that.
Phillips was a 37-year-old stay-at-home mom in 1956 when she
read the advice column in the San Francisco Chronicle and contacted the editors
to tell them she could do a better job. Her son, Eddie, told ABC's Good Morning
America in 2004, "They gave her a bunch of letters, thinking that they
would never see her again -- and she immediately took all of the letters . . .
and whipped out answers and had [them] back the same day. That knocked them off
their feet."
She began writing an advice column under the name
"Abigail Van Buren," launching a career that lasted more than four
decades and eventually led to the column being syndicated in more than 1,200
newspapers.
Phillips' twin sister, Eppie Lederer, got into the act as
well, becoming advice columnist "Ann Landers." Lederer died in 2002.
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