Film director, screenwriter, author and journalist Nora Ephron has been called “a smart, funny lady who makes smart, funny movies.”
Named one of “The 25 Most Powerful Women in America” by Biography magazine, Ephron began as a reporter and essayist. Her collected essays were published in the bestseller, Crazy Salad. In 1983 Ephron wrote the bestselling novel Heartburn. (She also wrote the 1986 movie adaptation.) Ephron's 2006 book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, was #1 on The New York Times bestseller list. In 2007 she joined The New York Times as a guest columnist.
In 1983 Ephron earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing Silkwood. In 1989 she received another Oscar nomination for her screenplay, When Harry Met Sally, and made her directorial debut with This is My Life. She followed that with Sleepless in Seattle, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, which grossed over $200 million worldwide. In 1998 she reunited Ryan and Hanks in the comedy, You’ve Got Mail.
Ephron's latest film, Julie and Julia, opened nationwide on August 7, 2009. Starring Meryl Streep, the film has grossed $92 million dollars domestically and introduces the passion for the culinary arts to a wide audience.
A new play-crowritten by Ephron and her sister Delia Ephron, Love, Loss and What I Wore, based on Illene Beckerman's book is playing off-broadway. 
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