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Joyce Brothers (born October 20, 1927) is an American psychologist, television personality and advice columnist, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. Brothers was born Joyce Diane Bauer in New York City, New York, the daughter of Estelle (née Rapaport) and Morris K. Bauer, both of whom were attorneys and had a law practice together. Her family is Jewish. She graduated from Far Rockaway High School in Far Rockaway, Queens in 1943. She earned her Ph.D. degree in psychology from Columbia University after completing her undergraduate work at Cornell University. She... MORE

Joyce Brothers (born October 20, 1927) is an American psychologist, television personality and advice columnist, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. Brothers was born Joyce Diane Bauer in New York City, New York, the daughter of Estelle (née Rapaport) and Morris K. Bauer, both of whom were attorneys and had a law practice together. Her family is Jewish. She graduated from Far Rockaway High School in Far Rockaway, Queens in 1943. She earned her Ph.D. degree in psychology from Columbia University after completing her undergraduate work at Cornell University. She married Milton Brothers, an internist, in 1949, and they had a daughter, Lisa. Milton Brothers died in 1989 from cancer. Joyce Brothers resides in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Brothers gained fame in late 1955 by winning The $64,000 Question game show, on which she appeared as an expert in the subject area of boxing. Originally, she had not planned to have boxing as her topic, but the sponsors suggested it, and she agreed. A voracious reader, she studied every reference book about boxing that she could find; she would later tell reporters that it was thanks to her good memory that she assimilated so much LESS