Nora Ephron (1941–2012)
Author of I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
About the Author
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 show more 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) show less
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Works by Nora Ephron
Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media (2012) 146 copies, 4 reviews
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2015) 50 copies, 1 review
4 Film Favorites: Romantic Comedy Collection: Laws of Attraction / Must Love Dogs / Two Weeks Notice / You've Got Mail (2010) — Director — 4 copies
Silkwood: A Screenplay 2 copies
Eat Pray Love / The Holiday [2006] / Julie & Julia (3-Movie Collection) (2016) — Director — 2 copies
You've Got Mail [Blu-ray] 2 copies
The Shop Around the Corner [and] You've Got Mail (Double Feature Video) — Director — 1 copy, 1 review
Shirley MacLaine Big Box Edition: Bewitched / Steel Magnolias / Guarding Tess — Director — 1 copy
The Romance Collection (The Lake House / The Phantom of the Opera / You've Got Mail) — Director — 1 copy
Insonnia d'amore 1 copy
It Could Happen to You / My Best Friend's Wedding / Sleepless in Seattle (Video) — Director — 1 copy
Triple Feature: Meg Ryan — Director — 1 copy
Bewitched [and] Bewitched [Episodes 1-3 from TV series] — Director — 1 copy
Embrujada 1 copy
Bewitched / Fun with Dick and Jane (Double Feature) — Director — 1 copy
Ephron, Nora Archive 1 copy
You've Got Mail [and] Addicted to Love (Double Feature Video) — Director — 1 copy
3 Films: Tom Hanks — Director — 1 copy
I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1 copy
Associated Works
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Contributor — 559 copies, 29 reviews
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Contributor — 551 copies, 10 reviews
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contributor — 256 copies, 3 reviews
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 89 copies
We thought we could do anything: The life of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron (1977) — Epilogue — 9 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Ephron, Nora
- Legal name
- Ephron, Nora
- Birthdate
- 1941-05-19
- Date of death
- 2012-06-26
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- pneumonia, as a complication of leukemia
- Places of residence
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Wellesley College (BA|1962)
- Occupations
- columnist
screenwriter
film director
producer - Relationships
- Ephron, Henry (father)
Ephron, Phoebe (mother)
Greenburg, Dan (first husband)
Bernstein, Carl (second husband)
Pileggi, Nicholas (husband)
Ephron, Delia (sister) (show all 8)
Ephron, Hallie (sister)
Ephron, Amy (sister) - Organizations
- New York Post
Esquire - Awards and honors
- 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)
Golden Apple Award (2009)
Members
Reviews
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on… by Nora Ephron
The book is generally funny but the last chapter is sobering. It's an honest reflection on aging and death, and how haunting both are. But Nora Ephron ends on a positive note - "if the events of the last few years have taught me anything, it's that I'm going to feel like an idiot if I die tomorrow and I skimped on bath oil today. So I use quite a lot of bath oil". Indeed, perhaps this is the mindset we all should have. Always live like today could be your last day on earth.
½
...if I tell the story, I control the versio..I can make you laughand I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me..."
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!… (more)
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!… (more)
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Statistics
- Works
- 60
- Also by
- 9
- Members
- 11,259
- Popularity
- #2,090
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 368
- ISBNs
- 230
- Languages
- 14
- Favorited
- 15