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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.
This produced a rivalry and lengthy estrangement between the two sisters. [5] On February 13, 1987, the Chicago Tribune announced that the Ann Landers column was moving to the Tribune, which had published the Dear Abby column for years. The Tribune ran both columns, Landers every day and Abby six days a week. [2]
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 ...
Way before 'Dear Abby' and 'Ann Landers,' this North Jersey native was dishing out advice. Gannett. ... Vermont with her sister, and spent a lot of her time in New York City. Her first newspaper ...
We got Ann Landers and her sister, Dear Abby Harrison Ford’s a quarter Jewish, not too shabby. Some people think that Ebenezer Scrooge is Well, he’s not, but guess who is?
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]
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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 ...