Nora Ephron
Dominique Allen
Nora Ephron Nora Ephron was born on May 19, 1941 in New York City and died of pneumonia at the age of 71 on June 26, 2012. She was born to screenwriters Henry and Phoebe Ephron and was the eldest of four daughters. Beverly Hills is where she grew up and attended high school, but she graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1962 with a degree in journalism. She went to work as an intern for President John F. Kennedy in the White House for a while but Ephron soon went back to New York where she became a reporter for the New York Post. From there Ephron wrote many essays on a variety of categories. She didn’t get involved in screenwriting until she helped her husband re-write William Goldman’s script for All the President’s Men and got offered her first screenwriting job for a television movie. Ephron’s love life wasn’t that great though. She was married three times throughout her life. First, to a writer named Dan Greenburg, which ended with a divorce after nine years. Then to a journalist named Carl Bernstein, with whom she had two sons, Jacob and Max, but while she was pregnant which her youngest son she found out about Bernstein’s affair with a close friend of hers, Margaret Jay, which ended their relationship but also inspired her to write the 1893 novel Heartburn. The novel was based on Bernstein’s affair and featured characters based on Jay and Bernstein. Bernstein threatened to sue but never did. Ephron’s last and longest marriage was with screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, to whom she was married to until her death. Nora Ephron’s most popular works are 2009 movie Julie & Julia, 2005 movie Bewitched, 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle, 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally... and 1986 novel/movie Heartburn.
Nora Ephron Nora Ephron was born on May 19, 1941 in New York City and died of pneumonia at the age of 71 on June 26, 2012. She was born to screenwriters Henry and Phoebe Ephron and was the eldest of four daughters. Beverly Hills is where she grew up and attended high school, but she graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1962 with a degree in journalism. She went to work as an intern for President John F. Kennedy in the White House for a while but Ephron soon went back to New York where she became a reporter for the New York Post. From there Ephron wrote many essays on a variety of categories. She didn’t get involved in screenwriting until she helped her husband re-write William Goldman’s script for All the President’s Men and got offered her first screenwriting job for a television movie. Ephron’s love life wasn’t that great though. She was married three times throughout her life. First, to a writer named Dan Greenburg, which ended with a divorce after nine years. Then to a journalist named Carl Bernstein, with whom she had two sons, Jacob and Max, but while she was pregnant which her youngest son she found out about Bernstein’s affair with a close friend of hers, Margaret Jay, which ended their relationship but also inspired her to write the 1893 novel Heartburn. The novel was based on Bernstein’s affair and featured characters based on Jay and Bernstein. Bernstein threatened to sue but never did. Ephron’s last and longest marriage was with screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, to whom she was married to until her death. Nora Ephron’s most popular works are 2009 movie Julie & Julia, 2005 movie Bewitched, 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle, 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally... and 1986 novel/movie Heartburn.