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Nora Ephron

1941 - 2012

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Nora Ephron ( EF-rən; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing romantic comedy films and received numerous accolades including a British Academy Film Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nora Ephron is the 1,760th most popular writer (up from 1,895th in 2019), the 2,567th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,398th in 2019) and the 207th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Nora Ephron ranks 1,760 out of 7,302. Before her are Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Mário de Andrade, Bob Woodward, Mór Jókai, Adalberon, and Antonio Skármeta. After her are Minna Canth, Silvina Ocampo, Baba Tahir, Shūsaku Endō, Junji Ito, and Dominique Venner.

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Among people born in 1941, Nora Ephron ranks 159. Before her are Luis Alberto Lacalle, Christopher Jones, Beau Bridges, Ole Nydahl, Nangolo Mbumba, and Federico Faggin. After her are Barbet Schroeder, Josef Jelínek, Sergio Oliva, David Crosby, George Lakoff, and Ron Brown. Among people deceased in 2012, Nora Ephron ranks 102. Before her are Estanislau Basora, Kathryn Joosten, Alfred Schmidt, Galina Vishnevskaya, Sid Watkins, and John Connelly. After her are Ignatius IV of Antioch, Sergio Oliva, Miljan Miljanić, Scott McKenzie, Maurice André, and Dave Sexton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nora Ephron ranks 2,567 out of 20,380. Before her are George William Hill (1838), Bob Woodward (1943), Rosie Perez (1964), William Labov (1927), Glenn Frey (1948), and Albert King (1923). After her are Candy Darling (1944), James McKeen Cattell (1860), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), John Savage (1949), Lee Majors (1939), and Robert Smithson (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Nora Ephron ranks 207. Before her are Anne Sexton (1928), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Johnston McCulley (1883), Jack Vance (1916), Rick Riordan (1964), and Bob Woodward (1943). After her are R. L. Stine (1943), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Jeffery Deaver (1950), Upton Sinclair (1878), and William Carlos Williams (1883).

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