Background
Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Eppie (née Esther Pauline Friedman) and Jules Lederer, a businessman and eventually the founder of Budget-Rent-A-Carolina International.
Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Eppie (née Esther Pauline Friedman) and Jules Lederer, a businessman and eventually the founder of Budget-Rent-A-Carolina International.
She attended Brandeis University but dropped out to marry, after which she worked at the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily News, and wrote for The New Republic, People, The Nation, and Boston Magazine.
Early life and education She wrote a syndicated social commentary column, Margo, in the 1970s. Foreign eight years, Howard wrote the Dear Prudence column featured in Slate magazine. Dear Prudence also was featured on National Public Radio and syndicated in more than 200 newspapers.
In February 2006, she left the Dear Prudence column, and began writing a Dear Margo column for Women on the Web (wowowowcom) and for Creators Syndicate.
On May 11, 2013, Howard ended the Dear Margo column, announcing that she was retiring from writing on a deadline and saying, "I plan to write long-form pieces as the spirit moves me". In 2014, Howard published Eat, Drink, and Remarry: Confessions of a Serial Wife, reminisces of her four marriages.
Marriages and family.