Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron ( born May 19, 1941 in New York City; † June 26, 2012 ibid ) was an American screenwriter and film director.
Life
She came from a family of writers. Her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron moved from the East Coast to Los Angeles, where both screenplays written. Nora was the oldest of four daughters. After leaving school at the Beverly Hills High School in 1958, she studied at Wellesley College in Massachusetts; the letters she wrote during this period home, her parents served as the basis for the comedy Love In a first
After her graduation in 1962 Nora moved to New York and worked for the New York Post. The author Dan Greenburg she was married seven years. In 1976 she met the Watergate reconnaissance Carl Bernstein. In 1978 she gave birth to their son Jacob was born. When she was pregnant with her second child, she found out that Amber was cheating on her with the mutual friend Margaret Jay.
About her failed marriage to Bernstein wrote Ephron 's novel Heartburn, for its film adaptation ( German title: heartburn) they also wrote the screenplay. In 1987 she married his third wife screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi.
The first successes as a screenwriter recorded Ephron in the 1980s, when she for her work on the political thriller Silkwood (1983 ) with Meryl Streep in the title role as well as the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally (1989 ) received Oscar nominations with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. From the early 1990s, she began to realize as a director own screenplays, including the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993) or em @ il for you (1998 ), each with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in the lead roles.
Occasionally Ephron worked together with her sisters Delia and Amy; her sister Hallie is a journalist and crime writer.
Nora Ephron died in June 2012 at the age of 71 years in Manhattan on the consequences of their leukemia.
Nora Ephron - Prize
In 2013, praised the New York Tribeca Film Festival with the U.S. $ 25,000.00 doped Nora Ephron Prize of which is to be awarded annually by the Women 's Filmmaker brunch.
Works
Plays
- 2013: Lucky Guy, nominated for several categories in the Tony Award Competition for 2013.
Screenplays
- Heartburn. 1983 Mashed against gloom. Novel. Earthscan, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-426-19104-0; Paperback edition: heartburn. Novel. Knaur, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-426-01457-2
- The neck never lies. My life as a woman in the prime of life. Limes, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8090-2538-2; Del Rey, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-37276-8
- I can remember it all. Just not as long. Limes, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8090-2601-3