# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eppie-lederer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:48:22.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eppie-lederer"
name: "Eppie Lederer"
slug: "eppie-lederer"
description: "Esther Pauline \"Eppie\" Lederer, better known by the pen name Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity. She began writing the \"Ask Ann Landers\" column in 1955 and continued for 47 years, by which time its readership was 90 million people. 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."
tagline: "American advice columnist (1918-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ann_Landers.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1918-07-04"
deathDate: "2002-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.7
  momentum:             7.794927384894864
  historical:           8.457497333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484625/"
    handle:    "nm0484625"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "اپى ليديرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ann Landers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppie_Lederer"
    title: "Eppie Lederer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppie_Lederer"
    title: "Eppie Lederer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppie_Lederer"
    title: "Eppie Lederer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppie_Lederer"
    title: "Eppie Lederer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Landers"
    title: "Ann Landers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppie_Lederer"
    title: "Eppie Lederer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308441"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump