Joyce Brothers Biography

Joyce Brothers was a famous American psychologist and television personality, who became the only woman ever to win the American game show, ‘The $64,000 Question’. She also presented a TV show on which she offered psychological advice. Apart from conducting her own show, she penned numerous columns on topics pertaining to sex, relationships and parenting and was also a regular columnist for the magazine, ‘Good Housekeeping’. An alumnus of the Cornell University, she earned degrees in home economics and psychology and obtained a doctorate from Columbia University. From very early on in life, she dabbled with a number of jobs and was the first female to commentate in a boxing match. Her first mass media interaction was when she interviewed professional boxers for radio broadcasts around the country. Her fame whizzed towards the end of the 20th century and she received a lot of negative criticism for giving out a lot of advice without understanding her callers’ histories over the phone.