Book In Review

        A Life In Letters, written by Margo Howard of the advice column fame, is a book based on letters she received over the years from her even more famous mother, Ann Landers, also of the the advice column fame. 

        We get a glimpse of the ups and downs of a mother- daughter relationship that is impacted by all of their personal relationships with other people who seem to float in and out of their lives, over the years.

         The letters are revealing not only of Ann Landers public personna but also of her complex relationship with Margo .  There is, of course, all kinds of gossipy tid bits woven through out the letters relating to many celebrity and high powered individuals who knew Eppie Lederer otherwise known as Ann Landers and her daughter Margo.

        The book is interesting in a kind of enquiring mind sort of way.  If you take the time to compare the public, and the private person; it is somewhat interesting to see the contradictory sides of Ann Landers.  She was a woman who many held up, as a paragon of virtue, for knowing exactly what to do, and when & how to do it, through her daily newspaper columns.

         In a way, this is an un-official biography of both women…as the letters were written about every day events in both of their lives.

         This book, A Life In Letters, was copyrighted in 2003 and it was published by Warner Books, Inc.