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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nora Ephron has received more than 6,161,614 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Nora Ephron is the 1,897th most popular writer (up from 2,001st in 2019), the 2,450th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,506th in 2019) and the 222nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 6.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nora Ephron ranks 1,897 out of 5,755. Before her are Avraham Stern, Caecilius Statius, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Philippe Quinault, Kathy Reichs, and Albert Cohen. After her are Roger Peyrefitte, Paul Gerhardt, Ross Macdonald, Fan Zhongyan, Shirley Jackson, and Al-Hariri of Basra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Nora Ephron ranks 147. Before her are Akiko Wakabayashi, Harry Nilsson, Otto Sander, Tom Fogerty, Michael Apted, and Adrian Lyne. After her are Infante Alfonso of Spain, Alexander Gauland, Percy Sledge, Peter Coyote, Paavo Lipponen, and Chubby Checker. Among people deceased in 2012, Nora Ephron ranks 97. Before her are Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Carlo Maria Martini, Svetozar Gligorić, Vidal Sassoon, Maurice André, and Daniel Inouye. After her are Alfred Schmidt, Manuel Fraga, Charles Durning, Dorothea Tanning, Ulric Neisser, and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nora Ephron ranks 2,450 out of 18,182. Before her are Jim Bridger (1804), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Richie Sambora (1959), Karen Allen (1951), Billy Ray Cyrus (1961), and Kathy Reichs (1948). After her are Carl Wieman (1951), Lin Shaye (1943), George Gaylord Simpson (1902), Hetty Green (1834), Zac Efron (1987), and Paul Milgrom (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Nora Ephron ranks 222. Before her are Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), Frederik Pohl (1919), Bob Woodward (1943), Alex Haley (1921), Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945), and Kathy Reichs (1948). After her are Ross Macdonald (1915), Shirley Jackson (1916), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815), Anne Sexton (1928), Kate Millett (1934), and Tony Robbins (1960).

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