Margo Howard

Howard grew up in Chicago and attended Brandeis University. Her newspaper career began at the Chicago Tribune as a feature writer, soon becoming a columnist. She wrote social commentary, often with humor. Moving to the Chicago Daily-News her column was syndicated. Marrying an interview subject (Ken Howard) she went to LA and began a magazine career, for publications ranging from The New Republic to PEOPLE. 14 years later she moved to Cambridge, MA. and became "Dear Prudence" on Slate.com, as well as in 200 newspapers. (Then “Dear Margo" at wowowow.com.)

She has written two previous books, effectively becoming her mother’s biographer. The first was a family memoir, “Eppie: The Story of Ann Landers,” and her more recent book “A Life in Letters; Ann Landers’ Letters to her Only Child.”

Howard has three adult children and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, a physician and surgeon.