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Nora Ephron

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Also known as Norah Louise Ephron

American film director and writer (1941–2012)

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Nora Ephron (1941–2012) was an American producer, novelist, and director. Her professional career spanned from 1973 until her death in 2012. She was a female citizen of the United States and had two children.

Ephron’s literary output included 41 works, with notable titles such as *Some Day This Will Be A Funny Story*, *The Most Of Nora Ephron*, *Ani śonet et ha-tsaṿar sheli*, *Cookie*, and *Moja szyja mi sie nie podoba*. She also authored five works recorded in academic databases. Her writing has been referenced in 508 other encyclopedia articles.

Her public persona included tags identifying her as an atheist. She is associated with quotes regarding sanity and marriage, such as, "Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy."

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
19 May 1941
Works
41

Top works

  • Some Day This Will Be A Funny Story
  • The Most Of Nora Ephron
  • Ani śonet et ha-tsaṿar sheli
  • Cookie
  • Moja szyja mi sie nie podoba

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1941-05-19
Active to
2012-06-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,087
Total plays
4,164

Tags

americanproducernovelistatheistdirector

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Nora+Ephron">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Reporting Structural Equation Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis Results: A Review

    · 2006 · cited 5,118x

  2. Neurocircuitry of Addiction

    · 2009 · cited 4,487x

  3. Neurobiology of addiction: a neurocircuitry analysis

    · 2016 · cited 3,254x

  4. Spatial partitioning of the regulatory landscape of the X-inactivation centre

    · 2012 · cited 2,937x

  5. Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe

    · 2020 · cited 2,823x

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Quotes

  • “Stare at me in this faceless way, go mad with desire, and rip my clothes off. It's terrific. In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. The fantasy of rape — of which mine is in a kind of prepubescent sub-category — is common enough among women and (in mirror image) among men.”
  • “I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.”
  • “Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.”
  • “Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease.”
  • “It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are entering a third era, in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.”
  • “[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it — the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that – so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don’t even wanna be in it!”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Nora
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Upper West Side
Place of death
Manhattan
Spouse
Dan Greenburg
Father
Henry Ephron
Mother
Phoebe Ephron
Occupation
director
Educated at
Beverly Hills High School
Employer
New York
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Field of work
essay
Image
Nora Ephron.jpg
Number of children
2
Residence
New York City
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related category
Category:Films with screenplays by Nora Ephron
Commons category
Nora Ephron
cause of death
pneumonia
date of birth
1941-05-19
date of death
2012-06-26
manner of death
natural causes
start of work period
1973-00-00
nominated for
Tony Award for Best Play
end of work period
2012-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Nora Ephron (/ˈɛfrən/ EF-rən; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American writer, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker. Known for writing and directing romantic comedy films, she received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Writers Guild of America Awards.

Ephron started her career writing the screenplays for Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986), and When Harry Met Sally... (1989), the last of which earned the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was ranked by the Writers Guild of America as the 40th greatest screenplay of all-time. She made her directorial film debut with the comedy drama This Is My Life (1992), and was followed by the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Michael (1996), You've Got Mail (1998), Bewitched (2005), and the biographical film Julie & Julia (2009).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nora Ephron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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