Being "The Lady With All the Answers" was an enjoyable yet serious responsibility for Ann Landers. It's also the title of a one-woman biographical play about the advice columnist now playing at ...

In advance of the Arvada Center’s production of The Lady With All the Answers, which starts its previews tomorrow night, we started researching the woman the play was based on: Eppie Lederer. Known to ...

And why, even though I hate it, small talk is so important. By Tressie McMillan Cottom Abigail Van Buren was defined as much by her twin as her column. By Samantha M. Shapiro David Rambo’s chatty solo ...

For decades, Ann Landers provided sage advice and the occasional wisecrack to millions of readers through her newspaper column. Now you can learn more about the woman behind the letters thanks to “The ...

Years from now, when the wars are over and we're looking back at 2002, it may turn out that the year's most significant media moment occurred on June 22, when Eppie Lederer died in her Chicago ...

Natalie Portman has closed a deal to direct and star in an untitled biopic about the identical twin sisters who wrote advice columns as Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers. The sisters were born in 1918 ...

The woman known as Ann Landers knew a great many things about the world and all of its troubles, peculiarities, woes and wonders, but she did not know anything about cocaine and that’s why she asked ...

This quote can be attributed to advice columnist Ann Landers: “At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't ...

Syndicated advice columnist Margo Howard slapped syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson with an open letter yesterday, accusing her of exploiting her mother, Esther “Eppie” Pauline Friedman Lederer ...

Columnist Ann Landers in 1968. Ann Landers breaks up a play fight between Muhammad Ali and sportscaster Howard Cosell in this 1977 photo. Famous “Dear Abby” advice columnist Pauline Phillips, left, ...