Nora Ephron Summary

The daughter of successful Hollywood screenwriters, Nora Ephron (born 1941) herself won acclaim during the 1980s for such screenplays as the Academy Award-nominated Silkwood and the highly successful ... Read more

Critical Essay by Leonore Fleischer Quite early in [And Now Here's Johnny] the author shows her pique at the difficulty of telling the story of the "real" Johnny. The scores of p... Read more

Critical Essay by Joe Mcginniss [Scribble Scribble] is as clean, tart and refreshing as the first gin-and-tonic of the summer…. Nora Ephron writes, at all times, with clarity, directness an... Read more

Critical Essay by Walter Clemons Nora Ephron's "Scribble Scribble" collects 25 shrewd and funny articles on the media written for Esquire. Ephron's best pieces are her dev... Read more

Critical Essay by John Deedy [Scribble Scribble] is saucier than [Tom Wicker's On Press] and more wide-ranging, but not so thoughtful, no doubt because it is briefer, the chapters sketchier. A... Read more

Critical Essay by Albert Johnston Rep-wrecker Nora Ephron swings the funniest journalistic wrecker's ball this side of Rex Reed. [Wallflower at the Orgy] is an implosion of miscellaneous inter... Read more

Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard While she might be a bit startled to hear it, I think that Nora Ephron comes pretty close to exemplifying the androgynous ideal that some feminists advocate as the s... Read more

Critical Essay by Barbara Zelenko [Crazy Salad is a] collection of witty and absorbing pieces…. At her best, Ephron brings a great deal of herself to her writing … but she is good at th... Read more

Critical Essay by Susan Braudy If you've ever heard Nora Ephron hold forth on television, or read her excellent pieces in Esquire and New York magazine—many of which are collected in Cr... Read more