ann landers

     

She got into the advice business before her twin sister, Dear Abby

Trivia about ann landers

  • Take my advice (stop) no one cares how you hang the toilet paper (stop) "Wake up and smell the coffee" (stop)
  • This letter-answering columnist got 30,000 letters of support when she split with her husband Jules
  • This advice columnist said "Truth is Stranger"; at least she did when she wrote that book in 1968
  • In 1955 she began her advice column by assuming the pen name of a columnist who just died
  • Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer began having her say in the Chicago Sun-Times under this name