Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

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A hilarious and revealing look at one of America's most cherished screenwriters. From the beginning of her career as a young journalist to her final interview - a warm, wise, heartbreaking reflection originally published in the Believer - this is a sparkling look at the life and work of a great talent.

NORA EPHRON was born in Manhattan in 1941 and grew up in Beverly Hills. Her parents were Broadway playwrights, who would base the playTake Her, She's Mineon letters she sent home from Wellesley College. After graduation, Ephron became a journalist, writing for theNew York Post,New Yorkmagazine,The New York Times Sunday Magazine,Cosmopolitan, andEsquire, where her 1972 piece "A Few Words About Breasts" made her a household name as an essayist. Her marriage to and subsequent divorce from Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein inspired her first novel,Heartburn, which was published in 1983 and later became a movie starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing for the filmsSilkwood,When Harry Met Sally, andSleepless in Seattle, and her essay collectionI Feel Bad About My Neckwas a number-oneNew York Timesbestseller. She died in New York City in 2012, at the age of seventy-one.