Dear Abby
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Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren" and carried on until July 2026 by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the lega
Dear Abby star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame memorializing the Dear Abby radio show
Ask Ann Landers
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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 adv
Dear Abby
…sister was Eppie (a nickname from E.P.). Pauline Phillips started her Dear Abby column a few months after her twin sister, Eppie Lederer, took over the Ask Ann Landers column. This produced a rivalry and lengthy estrangement between the two sisters. On February 13, 1987, the Chicago Tribune announced that the Ann…
Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers, in Chicago, 1983
Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer, a.k.a. 'Ann Landers', 1961