Nora Ephron (1941–2012)
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Nora Ephron was born in Manhattan on May 19, 1941. While attending Wellesley College, she was a summer intern in the Kennedy White House in 1961. After graduating in 1962, she began her career as a journalist with the New York Post, where she remained until 1968. She then focused on magazine vis mere journalism and primarily wrote for Esquire and New York. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Heartburn, Wallflower at the Orgy, Crazy Salad: Some Things about Women, Scribble Scribble, I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Reflections on Being a Woman, and I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections. In her later years, she was a blogger for The Huffington Post. She wrote several screenplays including Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986), and When Harry Met Sally (1989). She also wrote and directed several movies including This Is My Life (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), You've Got Mail (1998), Lucky Numbers (2000), Bewitched (2005), and Julie and Julia (2009). She wrote two plays Love, Loss, and What I Wore with her sister and Imaginary Friends. Her title I Remember Nothing made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. She died from pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia on June 26, 2012 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Nora Ephron
Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media (2012) 142 eksemplarer
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2015) 45 eksemplarer
4 Film Favorites: Romantic Comedy Collection: Laws of Attraction / Must Love Dogs / Two Weeks Notice / You've Got Mail (2010) — Instruktør — 4 eksemplarer
El coll no enganya: i altres reflexions sobre ser dona (Inspira) (Catalan Edition) (2008) 3 eksemplarer
Eat Pray Love / The Holiday [2006] / Julie & Julia (3-Movie Collection) (2016) — Instruktør — 2 eksemplarer
Silkwood: A Screenplay 2 eksemplarer
The Romance Collection (The Lake House / The Phantom of the Opera / You've Got Mail) — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
The Shop Around the Corner [and] You've Got Mail (Double Feature Video) — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
It Could Happen to You / My Best Friend's Wedding / Sleepless in Seattle (Video) — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
Bewitched [and] Bewitched [Episodes 1-3 from TV series] — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
Embrujada 1 eksemplar
Bewitched / Fun with Dick and Jane (Double Feature) — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
Ephron, Nora Archive 1 eksemplar
You've Got Mail [and] Addicted to Love (Double Feature Video) — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
3 Films: Tom Hanks — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1 eksemplar
Triple Feature: Meg Ryan — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Bidragyder — 549 eksemplarer
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragyder — 246 eksemplarer
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Bidragyder — 83 eksemplarer
We thought we could do anything: The life of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron (1977) — Epilogue — 9 eksemplarer
Shirley MacLaine Big Box Edition: Bewitched / Steel Magnolias / Guarding Tess — Instruktør — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Ephron, Nora
- Fødselsdato
- 1941-05-19
- Dødsdag
- 2012-06-26
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- VS
- Fødested
- New York, New York, VS
- Dødssted
- Manhattan, New York, VS
- Dødsårsag
- pneumonia, as a complication of leukemia
- Bopæl
- Beverly Hills, Californië, VS
- Uddannelse
- Wellesley College (BA|1962)
- Erhverv
- columnist
screenwriter
film director
producer - Relationer
- Ephron, Henry (father)
Ephron, Phoebe (mother)
Greenburg, Dan (first husband)
Bernstein, Carl (second husband)
Pileggi, Nicholas (husband)
Ephron, Delia (sister) (vis alle 8)
Ephron, Hallie (sister)
Ephron, Amy (sister) - Organisationer
- New York Post
Esquire - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Women in Film Crystal Award (1994)
Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (2007)
BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay (1989)
Ian McLellan Hunter Award (2003)
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- Værker
- 51
- Also by
- 14
- Medlemmer
- 10,166
- Popularitet
- #2,336
- Vurdering
- 3.6
- Anmeldelser
- 357
- ISBN
- 201
- Sprog
- 14
- Udvalgt
- 15
Written with warmth and humor, this is the story of the end of a very public marriage. Yes, some parts are dated, but Ephron had a lot of insight as to why women try to stay, and demonstrated courage in choosing to leave her cheating husband.
"I still love you, I thought...And in the meantime I'm getting out. I am no beauty, and I'm getting on in years, and I have just about enough money to last sixty day, and I am terrified of being alone, and I can't bear the idea of divorce, but I would rather die than sit her and pretend it's okay..."
It had me laughing out loud and welling up with tears... oh and great recipes interpersed within the story!… (mere)