advice columnist

plural advice columnists

1. Someone who writes for the advice column of a newspaper.

   The columns consist of letters from men and women with problems, followed by brief answers from the advice columnist. The letters are often filled with emotion.

   1984, Hilarie N. Staton, Think and Write, Good Year Books, →ISBN, page 115

   3 more examples

   Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer.

   2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1

   Margaret Maron, author of Winter's Child "A really plummy mystery, flawlessly plotted, that I especially loved because the heroine is an advice columnist — and a good one!"

   2007, Roberta Isleib, Deadly Advice, Penguin, →ISBN

   Readers, at least contemporary ones, are aware that writing to an advice columnist is an odd place to turn for help. They didn't doubt, however, that people still wrote to advice columns.

   2017, David Gudelunas, Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education, Routledge, →ISBN

   Synonyms: agony aunt, agony auntie, agony aunty, agony uncle