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Joyce Brothers : biography

20 October 1927 – 13 May 2013

Brothers also had a monthly column in Good Housekeeping magazine for almost four decades, and a syndicated newspaper column that she began writing in the 1970s and which at its height was printed in more than 300 newspapers."Joyce Brothers’ Column to Be Daily", Chicago Tribune, September 7, 1974, pg. 7 She also published several books including the 1981 book, What Every Woman Should Know About Men, and the 1991 book, Widowed, inspired by the loss of her husband.

As a psychologist, Brothers had been licensed in New York since 1958.

Personal life

Joyce Diane Bauer was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York to Estelle (née Rapaport)Weinberg, Sydney Stahl. . Accessed August 20, 2007. and Morris K. Bauer, attorneys who shared a law practice. Her family was Jewish. She graduated from Far Rockaway High School in January 1944. She entered Cornell University, double majoring in home economics and psychology and was a member of Sigma Delta Tau sorority. She earned her Ph.D degree in psychology from Columbia University. The American Association of University Women AAUW awarded Brothers the American Fellowship in 1952, which enabled her to complete the doctoral degree.AAUW. "Idealism At Work: Eighty Years of AAUW Fellowships, 1967, p. 331.

She married Dr. Milton Brothers, an internist, in 1949. The couple had a daughter, Lisa. Milton Brothers died in 1989 from cancer. Dr. Joyce Brothers resided in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where she died in 2013, aged 85.

Death and legacy

Brothers died, aged 85, at her home in Fort Lee on May 13, 2013 due to respiratory failure. She is survived by her daughter Lisa Brothers Arbisser, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and a sister. She called herself "the mother of television psychology". by Cheryl K. Chumley, The Washington Times, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. She is credited with inspiring "Dr. Laura" Schlessinger and "Dr. Phil" McGraw who called himself "a very big fan of hers" after her death.