Description: Further DetailsTitle: Nora EphronCondition: NewSubtitle: A BiographyEAN: 9781641609531ISBN: 9781641609531Publisher: Chicago Review PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/29/2024Description: "With her rigorous, authentic, and insightful biography of Nora Ephron, Kristin Doidge has gotten us all an invitation to sit around that table—to spend time with Nora and be forever changed by the encounter. This is a brilliant book."—Caroline Aaron, actress Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film.Nora Ephron: A Biography is the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career as a popular essayist turned screenwriter turned film director. She redefined the modern rom-com genre with bestselling books such as Heartburn and hit movies including When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and Julie & Julia. Doidge also examines the private life Ephron tried to keep in balance with her insatiable ambition. Based on rare archival research and numerous interviews with some of Ephron's closest friends, collaborators, and award-winning colleagues including actors Tom Hanks and Caroline Aaron, comedian Martin Short, composer George Fenton, and lifelong friends from Wellesley to New York to Hollywood—as well as interviews Ephron herself gave throughout her career—award-winning journalist and cultural critic Doidge has written a captivating story of the life of a creative writer whose passion for the perfect one-liner and ferocious drive to succeed revolutionized journalism, comedy, and film.The first in-depth biography to explore the complex themes that ran through Ephron's work and to examine why so many of them still grab our attention today.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 462gAuthor: Kristin Marguerite DoidgeGenre: Music Dance & TheatreTopic: Biography, Literary Criticism, Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships, Films & TVItem Width: 15mmRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Nora Ephron
Title: Nora Ephron
Subtitle: A Biography
EAN: 9781641609531
ISBN: 9781641609531
Release Date: 02/29/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Nora Ephron : a Biography
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Women, Literary, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 11 Oz
Author: Kristin Marguerite Doidge
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
