Margo Coleman
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Image:Margo.png Margo Coleman (often called Margo Howard; born Margo Lederer in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer.
Education and career
Howard attended Brandeis University, but did not receive a degree, leaving school to marry John Coleman. Her longest marriage was to the actor, Ken Howard. She is currently married to Ronald Weintraub, a Boston cardiac surgeon. Howard worked at two Chicago newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily News. She also wrote for several magazines, including The New Republic, People, The Nation, and Boston Magazine. She penned a syndicated social commentary column, "Margo," in the 70s.
For several years, Howard wrote the "Dear Prudence" column that was featured in Slate Magazine. "Dear Prudence" was also featured on NPR and syndicated in over 200 newspapers. It was announced in February 2006 that she would no longer write the Prudence column, but will instead pen a "Dear Margo" column for Yahoo! News.
Family life
She is the daughter of noted advice columnist Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer, better known under her pseudonym of Ann Landers. Howard assisted her mother with writing the column for many years prior to Lederer's death in 2002, but it was decided ahead of her death that the column would not continue.
The Landers and Abby columns were originally written by twin sisters, Lederer (Landers) and Pauline Friedman Phillips (Abby), who experienced several rivalries because of their columns. In an ironic echo of that rivalry, Coleman has had several public differences with her cousin Jeanne Phillips, who took over the Dear Abby column when her mother became ill with Alzheimer's disease.