Ann Landers and ANN Lee are two different people. ANN Landers was the pen name of American advice columnist Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer (1918-2002). She wrote a popular advice column for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1955 until her death in 2002. ANN Lee was the founder of the Shaker religious movement in the United States in the 18th century. She was born in Manchester, England in 1736 and died in 1784.