Nora Ephron, the celebrated screenwriter and director, died of leukemia Tuesday evening in New York, according to The New York Times. ...
Ephron, best known for penning the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally" (1989) and then writing and directing "Sleepless in Seattle" (1989) and "You've Got Mail" (1998), had not been reported as ill prior to a story from gossip columnist Liz Smith -- which repeatedly referred to the 71-year-old in the past tense while never pronouncing her dead. ...
Her screenplays for "Silkwood," "Harry" and "Sleepless" all earned Oscar nominations.
Ephron moved into directing with the 1992 feature "This Is My Life," the story of a stand-up comic starring Julie Kavner. The following year, "Sleepless" proved to be a huge hit, making Ephron one of Hollywood's few successful woman directors. Most recently, she directed 2009's "Julie & Julia," which starred her frequent collaborator Meryl Streep as Julia Child.
Ephron is married to the writer Nicholas Pileggi and has two sons, Jacob and Max Bernstein, from her previous marriage to investigative reporter Carl Bernstein.
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