People get a lot of advice from their moms. But very few people have moms who dispense advice the way Margot Howard’s mom did.
Margo is the only child of famed syndicated newspaper advice columnist Ann Landers.
For 47 years Ann Landers cranked out a daily column that millions of people read religiously. For some people that was the first thing or maybe only thing they read in the paper.
And the thing is, Ann Landers always wrote back to the people who wrote to her, even if their letters didn’t appear in the newspaper.
And over the years she wrote a number of letters to her daughter Margo, who saved most of them.
And in 2003 Margo Howard published a book about her famous mom, and those letters. The book was called A Life in Letters. And that’s when I had a conversation with the delightful Margo Howard.
So here now, from 2003, MaGet your copy of Margo Howard’s book
rgo Howard.
Ann Landers died in 2002 at age 83. Margo Howard is now 85. She retired from her career as a columnist in 2013.