She worked there as a mail girl but quit because she wanted to write. She attended Beverly Hills High School and dreamed of being the next Dorothy Parker, but a teacher inspired her to pursue a career in journalism and she graduated from Wellesley College in 1962 with a degree in political science.Īfter an internship at the White House, she applied for a job writing for Newsweek, but was informed that women were only allowed to be researchers, secretaries, and other support staff. (Her sister Hallie is a journalist and crime novelist, and sisters Delia and Amy are screenwriters.) Nora was named after the main character in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Of course, you may have read one (or more) of her books, or be familiar with her through one of the many interesting people she was associated with - her sister Delia, her ex-husband Carl Bernstein, her playwright parents, or any number of Hollywood folks who worked with her and were her friends.īorn in New York City on to playwrights and screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Nora and her three sisters grew up in Beverly Hills, California.
A sister I along with so many others am going to miss like crazy.You may know who Nora Ephron was because of her movies - most likely her unofficial “trilogy” of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail, but perhaps also Bewitched or Julie and Julia. as if she is my smart, insightful, sometimes biting (but in the best of ways) older sister. There is something about her that makes me feel as if I am her family. But that does not mean I will ever love her any less. And because I know that Nora would never appreciate anything but complete honesty, I must say here that I can't forgive her for letting Meg Ryan lose her lovely independent bookshop to big bad Tom Hanks's FOX Books. I have never considered the two women to be in the same arena, but that is changing - though Nora is certainly the more amiable of the two. I was surprised that for the first time I saw in her work shades of Joan Didion.
Whether writing about her dying mother, consciousness-raising groups, Gourmet magazine, the making of "When Harry Met Sally" or simply her own writing, she is brilliant. How uninhibited, despite all of her declarations of social inhibition. Then, it was time to return to Nora's own words for the comfort I needed, so I took this volume off my shelves. This sad news was followed by a semi-obsessive reading about her in The New York Times, Huffington Post, and so forth. I had not read Nora Ephron in a long time when I learned that she had died.
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