Nora Ephron

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Career

Ephron served briefly as an intern in the White House of President John F. Kennedy after graduating from Wellesley College in 1962. She also applied to be a writer at Newsweek. She was told that they did not hire women writers, so she accepted a position as a mail girl.

Ephron's role in a 2016 Amazon series by the identical main title Good Girls Revolt was fictionalized after she stopped writing Newsweek because she wasn't allowed to write, and she continued to work in a class action lawsuit against Newsweek for sexual harassment, which was outlined in the book The Women of Newsweek: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich, and the book The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek

Ephron accepted a position at the New York Post after a satire in Monocle caught the editor's eye. She had worked as a reporter for five years. In 1966, she broke the news in the Post that Bob Dylan had married Sara Lownds in a private ceremony. She began writing a column for Esquire on women's topics. Ephron made a name for herself by writing "A Few Words About Breasts," a satire essay about body image that "established her as the enfant terrible of the New Journalism." Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post; Betty Friedan, who chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out "a generation of docile and unadventurous women" while at Esquire. A 1968 Women's Wear Daily columnista writes that writing for Cosmopolitan resulted in lawsuits from WWD.

In the mid-1970s, Ephron rewrote a script for All the President's Men, as well as her then-husband Carl Bernstein. Although the script was not used, it was seen by someone who offered Ephron her first screenwriting job for a television film, which began her screenwriting career.

Ephron scripted the film Silkwood with Alice Arlen in 1983. Meryl Steedwood, a whistleblower at the Kerr McGee Cimarron nuclear plant who dies under questionable circumstances, appears in the film, directed by Mike Nichols. In 1984, Ephron and Arlen were nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Silkwood.

Heartburn, Ephron's book, was released in 1983. Carl Bernstein's marriage is portrayed in a semi-autobiographical story. The film version was released in 1986 and starred Meryl Steed and Jack Nicholson. Ephron converted her own book into the film's screenplay. When she learns about her husband's affair, Ephron's fictionalized version of herself, played by Steffiep, becomes a pregnant food writer.

In 1986, Ephron wrote the script for the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally... Rob Reiner, directed Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, made the film, which was released in 1989. The film portrays Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) as they navigate their own intimate relationships. Ephron has said that she wrote this screenplay with Reiner in mind as the character of Harry and herself as Sally's character. The film has made a name for itself in the romantic comedy genre, especially for the scene in which Sally claims to have an orgasm in the middle of Katz's Deli at lunch. According to Meg Ryan's plans, Ephron said she wrote the part of Sally simulating an orgasm into the script. In addition, Billy Crystal's remark, "I'll have what she's having" said by a deli patron (played by Rob Reiner's real-life mother Estelle Reiner) who was standing nearby, enjoying the scene. In 1990, Ephron's script was nominated for the Best Writing, Screenplay, Written Specifically for the Screen Award.

This Is My Life, Ephron's debut film, was released in 1992. This is Your Life by Ephron and her sister Delia Ephron. After inheriting a substantial sum of money from a relative, a woman who decides to pursue a career in stand-up comedy is the subject of the film. "I made absolutely for Woody Allen" in a Criterion Channel interview between Lena Dunham and Ephron. She later admitted that she saw it and liked it in the talk.

Ephron wrote and produced the script for the romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle in 1993. Tom Hanks stars Sam Baldwin, a newly widowed father whose son calls into a Chicago-based radio talk show in the hopes of finding his father a new partner. Annie Reed, a Baltimore resident portrayed by Meg Ryan, becomes infatuated with Sam and arranges a rendezvous for the two characters to meet in New York City after hearing this call.

In 1994, she was given the Women in Film Crystal Award.

Ephron wrote the script for the film You've Got Mail in 1998, which she coproduced with her sister Delia Ephron and directed. The story is a loose recreation of Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner. Meg Ryan, the owner of a small, independent children's bookstore in New York City, appears in You've Got Mail. Fox Books, a Barnes & Noble-esque book selling chain, has now put her peaceful life in jeopardy, which opens near her Barnes & Noble book selling chain. Joe Fox, a Tom Hanks-led Fox Books, is the author of this article. Joe and Kathleen navigate a turbulent company conflict while simultaneously establishing a close business relationship by email.

In 2007, Ephron received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by Awards Council member George Lucas.

Julie and Julia's screenplay was produced and co-wrote by Ephron in 2009. The film is based on Julie Powell's blog and memoir of the same name. Julia Child, Meryl Streep's most popular American chef, and Julie Powell, a New Yorker trying to cook her way through Children's cookbook, portrayed by Amy Adams, are the subject of the film. The film flashes back to Child's first stages of her life as she trains in a French culinary academy as Powell shares her encounter. The film was a commercial success.

The plot Imaginary Friends, written by Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy in 2002, explores writer Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy's rivalry. Love, Loss, and What I Wore was written by Ilene Beckerman with her sister Delia, and the show has attracted sell-out audiences in Canada, New York City, and Los Angeles.

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