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Nora Ephron (;〔 Interview.〕 May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger. Ephron is best known for her romantic comedies and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing: for ''Silkwood'', ''When Harry Met Sally...'', and ''Sleepless in Seattle''. She won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''When Harry Met Sally...''. She sometimes wrote with her sister Delia Ephron.〔 Her last film was ''Julie & Julia.''〔 She also co-authored the Drama Desk Award–winning theatrical production ''Love, Loss, and What I Wore''.〔〔("Ragtime, The Scottsboro Boys, The Addams Family and Finian's Rainbow Top Nominations for 2010 Drama Desk Awards" ). In 2013, she received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for ''Lucky Gyu'', her last play. May 3, 2010.〕 In 2013, Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for her play ''Lucky Guy''. ==Personal life== Ephron was born in New York City, eldest of four daughters, in a Jewish family, and grew up in Beverly Hills. Her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron (née Wolkind), were both East Coast-born and raised screenwriters. Her sisters Delia and Amy are also screenwriters. Her sister Hallie Ephron is a journalist, book reviewer, and novelist who writes crime fiction. Ephron's parents based the ingenue character in the play and film version of ''Take Her, She's Mine'' on the 22-year-old Nora and her letters from college. Both her parents became alcoholics during their declining years.〔 Ephron graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1958, and from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1962. She was married three times. Her first marriage, to writer Dan Greenburg, ended in divorce after nine years.〔 In 1976, she married journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame. In 1979, Ephron had a toddler son, Jacob, and was pregnant with her second son Max when she discovered Bernstein's affair with their common friend, married British politician Margaret Jay. Ephron was inspired by this to write the 1983 novel ''Heartburn'', which was then made into a 1986 Mike Nichols film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. In the book, Ephron wrote of a husband named Mark, who was "capable of having sex with a Venetian blind."〔 She also wrote that the character Thelma (based on Margaret Jay) looked like a giraffe with "big feet."〔 Bernstein threatened to sue over the book and film, but he never did.〔 Ephron was married for more than 20 years to screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi until her death. The couple lived in New York City. Although Jewish by birth, Ephron was not religious. "You can never have too much butter – that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it," she quipped in an NPR interview about her 2009 movie, ''Julie & Julia''.〔http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=111543710〕 Her son Jacob Bernstein is to direct an HBO movie on her life called ''Everything Is Copy''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nora Ephron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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