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During Lederer's career writing the Ann Landers column, her sister wrote a similar personal advice column, "Dear Abby", under the name Abigail Van Buren, which she initiated in San Francisco a few months after Eppie took over as Ann Landers in Chicago. As competing columnists they had a discordant relationship.
Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers, in Chicago, 1983. Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Owing to this ...
Dear Abby's current syndication company claims the column is "well-known for sound, compassionate advice, delivered with the straightforward style of a good friend." [1] By 1987, over 1,200 newspapers ran the column. [2] Abby was born Pauline Esther Friedman, and her twin sister was born Esther Pauline Friedman.
"Somebody is always trying to put something in life to make it just that much harder for us girls," Marion Clyde McCarroll said in the 1950s.
Margo Howard (née Lederer; born March 15, 1940) is an American writer and former advice columnist.She is the only child of businessman/innovator Jules Lederer and Eppie Lederer (better known as Ann Landers after her long-time advice column Ask Ann Landers), the niece of Pauline Phillips, and the cousin of Jeanne Phillips (the latter two both better known as Abigail Van Buren and authors of ...
Pauline Esther Phillips (born Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the well-known "Dear Abby" newspaper column in 1956.
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Jules and Esther fell in love and were married in a double ceremony. The two sisters would eventually become the writers of the widely syndicated advice columns, Ask Ann Landers and Dear Abby, respectively. Lederer's daughter Margo also became a newspaper columnist, writing for the Chicago Daily News. [1]