NORA EPHRON
Nora Ephron, acclaimed essayist, novelist, screenwriter and director was born
May 19, 1941 New York City. She is the daughter of screenwriting team, Pheobe
and Henry Ephron, who wrote classic screenplays such as, There's No Business
Like Show Business, What Price Glory and Desk Set. She is the oldest of four
sisters, Delia, Amy and Hallie. The Ephrons were a family that valued verbal
jousting, and in an article in Vanity Fair one Ephron sister compared the family
dinner table to the Algonquin Round Table. Ephron grew up in a household where
both parents abused alcohol, but she has never let her sometimes difficult
childhood defeat her.
Ephron graduated from Wellesley in 1962 with a degree in journalism, and became
a reporter for the New York Post. In her autobiographical speech, Adventures
Screenwriting, Ephron reveals that in college all she could think about was
going to New
York and becoming a journalist. She became one of the counrty's best known
journalists with her work in Esquire, New York Times Magazine and New York
Magazine. Two collections of her essays, Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble were
bestsellers, along with her novel, Heartburn, an account of the breakup of her
marriage. Ephron was married to writer, Dan Greenburg before marrying Watergate
journalist, Carl Bernstein. The couple had two sons, Jacob, 21 and Max, 20. It
was the breakup with Bernstein that prompted her novel Heartburn. In 1987,
Ephron married Nicholas Pileggi, a journalist and screenwriter. He wrote
Wiseguys, which later became Goodfellas. Ephron lives on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan with her husband.
Nora Ephron, acclaimed essayist, novelist, screenwriter and director was born
May 19, 1941 New York City. She is the daughter of screenwriting team, Pheobe
and Henry Ephron, who wrote classic screenplays such as, There's No Business
Like Show Business, What Price Glory and Desk Set. She is the oldest of four
sisters, Delia, Amy and Hallie. The Ephrons were a family that valued verbal
jousting, and in an article in Vanity Fair one Ephron sister compared the family
dinner table to the Algonquin Round Table. Ephron grew up in a household where
both parents abused alcohol, but she has never let her sometimes difficult
childhood defeat her.
Ephron graduated from Wellesley in 1962 with a degree in journalism, and became
a reporter for the New York Post. In her autobiographical speech, Adventures
Screenwriting, Ephron reveals that in college all she could think about was
going to New
York and becoming a journalist. She became one of the counrty's best known
journalists with her work in Esquire, New York Times Magazine and New York
Magazine. Two collections of her essays, Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble were
bestsellers, along with her novel, Heartburn, an account of the breakup of her
marriage. Ephron was married to writer, Dan Greenburg before marrying Watergate
journalist, Carl Bernstein. The couple had two sons, Jacob, 21 and Max, 20. It
was the breakup with Bernstein that prompted her novel Heartburn. In 1987,
Ephron married Nicholas Pileggi, a journalist and screenwriter. He wrote
Wiseguys, which later became Goodfellas. Ephron lives on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan with her husband.