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Meet Our New Dear Prudence Columnist.!

Dear Prudie, From Prudie.

On 9 February 2006, Dear Prudence was taken over by Slate staffer Emily Yoffe.

Meet Our New Dear Prudence Columnist.

An interview / profile of Mallory Ortberg and her post-Toast life Is there a reason Emily Yoffe isn't Prudie anymore?

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Dear Prudence (advice column)

Column in Slate magazine

Dear Prudence is an advice column appearing several times weekly in the online magazine Slate and syndicated to over 200 newspapers.

History

Herbert Stein

The column was initiated on 20 December 1997. "Prudence" was a pseudonym, and the author's true identity was not revealed at the time. Slate's archive currently indicates that the author of those first columns was Herbert Stein.

Stein ceased writing the column after three months and the column went on hiatus.

Margo Howard

In mid-March 1998, the column returned, with the explanation that "Prudence" had not come back from her "needlework"—per the explanation offered in Stein's last column—but rather had convinced her daughter and namesake to continue her work.

Emily Yoffe has tried to solve other people's problems for almost a decade.

While similarly anonymous at first, the new author of the column was eventually revealed to be Margo Howard,^[1] the daughter of Esther Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers.

Howard maintained the