![]() ![]() While that film received much praise, she really hit box office gold with her screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in the title roles. It earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. Commercial SuccessĪround this time, Ephron made the leap into films, writing the screenplay for the drama Silkwood (1983). Her first novel, Heartburn (1983), drew inspiration from the end of her second marriage and was later made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. ![]() In 1970, her articles collected and published in 1970's Wallflower at the Orgy and 1975's Crazy Salad. ![]() Gifted with a sharp wit, Ephron first made her mark as an essayist. She went east to go to school at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. The daughter of writers, she grew up in Los Angeles, feeling much like an outsider. Early Life and CareerĮphron was born on May 19, 1941, in New York, New York. Ephron died from pneumonia, caused by acute myeloid leukemia, on June 26, 2012, at the age of 71. Later, she wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail and Julie & Julia (2009). ![]() Ephron wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy classic When Harry Met Sally. Nora Ephron's essays first garnered attention in the early 1970s, and by the 1980s, and then she began to transition into screenwriting. ![]()
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