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Eppie Lederer (Esther Pauline Friedman) was born on 4 July, 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa, U.S., is an American journalist. Discover Eppie Lederer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As Esther Pauline Friedman
Occupation Personal advice columnist, author, radio host
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 4 July 1918
Birthday 4 July
Birthplace Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
Date of death 22 June, 2002
Died Place Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Who Is Eppie Lederer's Husband?

Her husband is Jules Lederer (m. 1939-1975)

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Husband Jules Lederer (m. 1939-1975)
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Children Margo Howard

Eppie Lederer Net Worth

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Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Timeline

1918

Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), better known by the pen name Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity.

1936

They grew up in Sioux City and attended its Morningside College for three and a half years (1936–39), where they wrote a gossip column for the college's newspaper.

Eppie majored in journalism and psychology.

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.

1939

Eppie and Popo were married to their husbands in a double-wedding ceremony on July 2, 1939, two days before their 21st birthday.

There were 750 guests, and hundreds more who stood outside to watch.

Eppie was married to Jules Lederer, who became a business executive; Popo married Morton Phillips of Minneapolis.

1943

During her nine years writing the column, intermittently from 1943, Crowley's identity had been kept secret.

Lederer won a contest to take over the column later that year, and took on the identity.

Long before the end of her 47 years as Ann Landers, she had become a North American media celebrity, having appeared on television and traveled the continent to media and charity events.

In her later years, Lederer began answering questions about homosexuality and other topics that had once been taboo in print.

1945

Between 1945 and 1949, Lederer was chairwoman of the Minnesota-Wisconsin council of the Anti Defamation League.

1955

She began writing the "Ask Ann Landers" column in 1955 and continued for 47 years, by which time its readership was 90 million people.

Ruth Crowley, the creator of the Chicago Sun-Times' Ask Ann Landers column, died in 1955.

1956

She appeared on the March 18, 1956, episode of What's My Line?, signing in as Mrs. Jules Lederer.

1964

They reconciled publicly in 1964, but acrimony between them persisted.

1970

From the early 1970s until her death, Lederer lived at 209 East Lake Shore Drive, in a 14-room, high-rise apartment.

1975

Jules and Eppie divorced in 1975.

In her column of July 1, 1975, Lederer wrote, "The sad, incredible fact is, that after 36 years of marriage, Jules and I are being divorced."

She received 30,000 sympathetic letters in response.

Lederer was in good health almost all her life.

1977

Lederer was a profile-raiser for several medical charities, and in 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed her to a six-year term on a cancer advisory board.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Esther Pauline and her identical twin sister Pauline Esther ("Popo", who was 17 minutes younger) were daughters of Russian Jewish immigrants Rebecca Friedman (née Rushall) and Abraham B. Friedman.

1978

A 1978 World Almanac survey named her the most influential woman in the United States.

She was the identical twin sister of Pauline Phillips, who wrote the similarly popular "Dear Abby" advice column as Abigail Van Buren.

1993

In a 1993 interview, she said she was happy for the dissolution of restrictions she had to work under in the 1950s.

1999

Her former husband had died on January 21, 1999.

After Lederer's death, her longtime editors Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar started writing the Annie's Mailbox column.

Lederer's desk was purchased by Dan Savage, author of the relationship-and-sex advice column Savage Love.

2002

She was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in January 2002 and died on June 22, two weeks before what would have been her 84th birthday, having refused any medical treatment for her condition.

2003

In 2003, a collection of correspondence between Lederer and her daughter was published.

2006

In 2006, David Rambo wrote a play about the life and work of Lederer as Ann Landers.

2008

The production was revived in 2008 at the Pasadena Playhouse in California, starring Mimi Kennedy.

2017

In her July 8, 2017, Dear Abby column, Jeanne Phillips said her mother liked being a twin while her aunt wanted to be an individual, and this also caused conflict between them.