11 Facts About Judith Martin

Judith Martin, better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American columnist, author, and etiquette authority.

Jacob married Helen Aronson in 1935, and they moved to Washington, DC, where Judith Martin was born in 1938.

Judith Martin spent a significant part of her childhood in Washington, where she still lives and works, graduating from Jackson-Reed High School Class of 1955.

Judith Martin lived in various foreign capitals as a child, as her father, a United Nations economist, was frequently transferred.

Judith Martin graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in English.

In 1978, Judith Martin began writing an advice column, which was distributed three and later six times a week by Universal Uclick and carried in more than 200 newspapers worldwide.

Judith Martin's columns have been collected in a number of books.

Judith Martin identifies "blatant greed" as the most serious etiquette problem in the United States.

Some of Judith Martin's writings were collected and set to music by Dominick Argento in his song cycle Miss Manners on Music.

Since its launch in 2008, Judith Martin has been a contributor for wowOwow, a Web site for women to talk culture, politics, and gossip.

Judith Martin was portrayed by Broadway theatre actress Jessie Mueller in The Post, Steven Spielberg's 2017 movie about the Pentagon Papers.