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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 6,106,663 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Nora Ephron is the 1,896th most popular writer (down from 1,892nd in 2019), the 2,398th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,445th in 2019) and the 213th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Crazy salad
Feminism, Women
1975
I Feel Bad About My Neck
aging, family, Nonfiction
2006
When Harry met Sally
1989
Wallflower at the Orgy
Interviews, Celebrities
1970
Nora Ephron collected
1991
Heartburn
fiction, food writers, married people
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of *Sleepless in Seattle* reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs" is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes. *Heartburn* is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé.
1983

Page views of Nora Ephrons by language

Over the past year Nora Ephron has had the most page views in the with 724,327 views, followed by Spanish (42,402), and Italian (25,001). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (334.10%), Chuvash (107.26%), and Central Bicolano (105.21%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nora Ephron ranks 1,896 out of 7,302. Before her are Handrij Zejler, Henrik Wergeland, Uri Orlev, Brian Aldiss, Augustin Barruel, and Valery Bryusov. After her are Begum Rokeya, Colin Wilson, Luis de León, José de Espronceda, Voltairine de Cleyre, and Erinna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Nora Ephron ranks 151. Before her are Fabio Testi, George Lakoff, Sergei Dovlatov, Andrei Mironov, David Hemmings, and Myron Scholes. After her are Fionnula Flanagan, Salvatore Accardo, Élisabeth Depardieu, Paavo Lipponen, Bruce Nauman, and Luis Alberto Lacalle. Among people deceased in 2012, Nora Ephron ranks 101. Before her are Manuel Fraga, Vidal Sassoon, Włodzimierz Smolarek, Alfred Schmidt, Lina Romay, and Andy Williams. After her are Carlo Maria Martini, Scott McKenzie, Gitta Sereny, Charles Durning, Félix Miélli Venerando, and Svetozar Gligorić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nora Ephron ranks 2,398 out of 20,380. Before her are Robin Tunney (1972), Don Cheadle (1964), Wilma Rudolph (1940), John Connally (1917), Sam Rockwell (1968), and Katey Sagal (1954). After her are Broncho Billy Anderson (1880), Danny Elfman (1953), Chris Evans (1981), Robert Brout (1928), Scott McKenzie (1939), and Ed Sullivan (1901).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Nora Ephron ranks 213. Before her are William Moulton Marston (1893), Paul Goodman (1911), James Ellroy (1948), Johnston McCulley (1883), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), and Shirley Jackson (1916). After her are Voltairine de Cleyre (1866), Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Robert James Waller (1939), Nicholas Sparks (1965), Jane Jacobs (1916), and Eugene Nida (1914).

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