Ruth Crowley

Ruth Crowley ( – July 19, 1955

Career Crowley was a registered nurse

Newspapers Crowley was a feature writer for the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1941 she began writing a column about child care, and in 1943 she initiated a column of general advice. She used the pseudonym Ann Landers for it to avoid confusion between the two columns. She wrote the Landers column until 1948, took a break, and resumed it in 1951.

Television Crowley had two television programs in the 1950s. Women and the World was honored as the best women's TV program by the Chicago Federated Advertising Clubs in 1955. She supplemented her own knowledge by having pediatricians and child-care experts appear on the latter show. That feeling motivated her to read about raising children, which in turn led her to write books that might help other mothers who found themselves in similar situations. Her daughter, Diane Crowley, began writing an advice column for the Sun Times in 1987 when the Landers column moved to the Chicago Tribune.

She died in Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois, on July 19, 1955, aged 48 after a brief illness.