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Nora Ephron Nora Ephron is an essayist, journalist, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and blogger. She has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay: for Sleepless in Seattle (1993; written with David Ward and Jeff Arch), When Harry Met Sally (1989), and Silkwood (1983; written with Alice Arlen). She turned to directing in 1992 with her first feature, This Is My Life, followed by Sleepless in Seattle, Mixed Nuts (1994), Michael (1996), You’ve Got Mail (1998), and Bewitched (2005), all of which she also wrote or co-wrote. Currently she is directing, from her own screenplay, an adaptation of Julie and Julia, a memoir about a woman who attempts to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking; the film will be released in 2009 and stars Meryl Streep as Julia Child. Her first Broadway play, Imaginary Friends, debuted in New York in December 2002. A native New Yorker, she began writing for the screen after years as one of the country’s best-known journalists. She started as a newspaper reporter for the New York Post and then became a magazine writer for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and New York Magazine, among others. In May 2007, she joined The New York Times as a guest columnist. Her books include the essay collections Crazy Salad (1975) and Scribble, Scribble (1978), and the novel Heartburn (1983), all bestsellers. Her latest collection, the #1 New York Times bestseller I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (2006), includes candid, humorous essays about women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself. Nora Ephron lives in New York City with her husband, screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi.
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