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'Ask Amy' to fill Ann Landers' spot
« on: Jul 15th, 2003, 11:47am » |
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CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A journalist who raised her daughter as a single mother and worked as a receptionist, nightclub singer and Sunday school teacher was named to take over the late Ann Landers' advice column.
Starting July 20, Amy Dickinson will answer questions about infidelity, sickness, marriage and other of life's joys and pitfalls in a Chicago Tribune column to run seven days a week, the newspaper reported July 9. Syndication will start this fall.
The column, which will be named "Ask Amy," will fill a void in the newspaper created by the death of Esther Lederer, who for nearly five decades doled out advice to thousands of readers under the Landers' name.
Lederer, known as Eppie, died last year at age 83. The Tribune also will continue to publish the popular Dear Abby column, which appears daily. It formerly was written by Lederer's sister, Pauline Phillips, and now is written by Lederer's niece.
Dickinson, 43, a distant relative of the poet Emily Dickinson, said she grew up reading Ann Landers and it "brought the world to me" in her small home town of Freeville in New York's Finger Lakes region.
She has worked as a receptionist for The New Yorker magazine, a producer for NBC News in Washington and New York, a Sunday school teacher and a nightclub singer.
After her divorce 12 years ago, she supported herself and her daughter by writing a weekly column, carried on America Online's News Channel, about her experiences as a single parent.
For the past several years, her commentaries have appeared in Time magazine and been featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
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