Her novel “Heartburn” was based on her marriage to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, and became a movie in 1986.īut it was for her romantic comedies that she was to become best known, and in particular the 1989 “When Harry met Sally” starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, for which she won an Oscar nomination, and 1993's “Sleepless in Seattle.” In her first screenplay in 1983 “Silkwood” starring Streep, Ephron tapped into the era's Cold War fear of nuclear energy. In her early years she wrote for Esquire and New York Magazine, the New York Post and the New York Times.īut she graduated onto writing novels and then parlayed them into successful film scripts, many drawn from her own experiences. “From her earliest days at New York City's newspapers to her biggest Hollywood successes, Nora always loved a good New York story, and she could tell them like no one else.”Įphron was born in the Big Apple on May 19, 1941, the daughter of a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter, who told her to “take notes.Įverything is copy.”She was eventually to become the queen of Hollywood romantic comedies, but her writing career began in journalism. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: “The loss of Nora Ephron is a devastating one for New York City's arts and cultural community. Her son Jacob Bernstein told the New York Times that his mother had died of pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia. She was 71.Ī noted American journalist, essayist, writer as well as producer and director, Ephron wrote and directed her last film “Julia and Julia” in 2009 in which she worked once more alongside her good friend Meryl Streep. LOS ANGELES: Oscar-nominated Hollywood screenwriter Nora Ephron who penned such romantic comedies as “When Harry met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle” died Tuesday, US officials and media said. Director and writer Nora Ephron, left, and cast members Meryl Streep, center, and Amy Adams pose together at the premiere of “Julie and Julia” in Los Angeles.-AP Photo
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