Margo Howard (née Lederer; born March 15, 1940) is an American writer and former advice columnist.
She is the only child of businessman/innovator Jules Lederer and Eppie Lederer (better known as Ann Landers after her long-time advice column Ask Ann Landers), the niece of Pauline Phillips, and the cousin of Jeanne Phillips (the latter two both better known as Abigail Van Buren and authors of the advice column Dear Abby).
[1] Howard was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to Eppie (née Esther Pauline Friedman) and Jules Lederer, a businessman and eventually the founder of Budget-Rent-A-Car International.
[3] In an echo of that rivalry, Howard and her aunt never got along,[4] and she has had public differences with her cousin Jeanne Phillips,[3] who took over the Dear Abby column when her mother died.
In 2014, Howard published Eat, Drink, and Remarry: Confessions of a Serial Wife, reminisces of her four marriages.