Esther Pauline Friedman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ann Landers was born on July 4, 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA as Esther Pauline Friedman. She was married to Jules Lederer. She died on June 22, 2002 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Married Jules Lederer, founder of the Budget Rent-a-Car, and her sister Pauline married Morton Phillips in an elaborate Orthodox Jewish double wedding in the twins' hometown of Sioux City.
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She became the first journalist to win the Albert Lasker Public Service Award for her efforts in persuading Congress to approve millions of dollars for cancer research. (Ironically, she would later die of cancer herself).
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Daughter, Margo Howard, also has an advice column, called "Dear Prudence", which appears in Slate magazine.
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Coined the phrase "wake up and smell the coffee".
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Psychology Today once gave her credit for likely having more influence on the way people work out their problems than any other person of her era.
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One daughter, Margo Howard (with husband Jules Lederer).
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Once referred to Pope John Paul II as a "polack" but later apologized for doing so.
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Her column first appeared in print October 16, 1955, in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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At the time of her death, her column was carried in more than 1,200 newspapers around the world, with a readership of 90 million.
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A 1978 World Almanac survey named her the most influential woman in the United States.
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Identical twin sister of Abigail Van Buren (who wrote for the advice column "Dear Abby"). She is 17 minutes older than Abby.
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Was the daughter of Russian immigrants.
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She and her sister and their husbands married in a double ceremony.
$200,000