Dear Prudence is an advice column appearing weekly in the online magazine Slate and syndicated to over 200 newspapers. A Webzine is an ezine hosted on the World Wide Web rather than in print. ... Slate. ...

The column was initiated on 20 December 1997. "Prudence" was a pseudonym, and the author's true name was not revealed at the time. Slate's archive currently indicates that the author of those first columns was Herbert Stein. December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Herbert Stein (August 27, 1916 – September 8, 1999) was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was on the board of contributors of The Wall Street Journal. ...

Stein ceased writing the column after three months and the column went on hiatus. In mid-March of 1998, the column returned, with the explanation that "Prudence" had not come back from her "needlework", the explanation offered in Stein's last column, but rather had convinced her daughter and namesake to continue her work. While similarly anonymous at first, the new author of the column was eventually revealed to be Margo Howard, the daughter of Esther Lederer, aka Ann Landers. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Margo Howard (born Margo Coleman) is an advice columnist who writes the Dear Prudence column for Slate. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Ann Landers EstherEppiePauline Friedman Lederer, better known as Ann Landers (July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), is best known for writing the famous syndicated advice column Ann Landers. Known For some 45 years, it was a regular feature in many...

Howard maintained the column for nearly eight years, making the "Prudence" role very much her own. Her last Dear Prudence column appeared in Slate on 2 February 2006. Howard now has her own advice column at Yahoo! News, and "Dear Prudence" has been taken over by Slate staffer Emily Yoffe. February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yahoo! Inc. ... Emily Yoffe is a journalist, a regular contributor to Slate magazine and the NPR radio show Day to Day. ...

The title of the column is a play on the Beatles song, "Dear Prudence." The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... This article is about the song by the Beatles. ...

External links

• Dear Prudence archive at Slate