Her first novel, Heartburn (1983), drew inspiration from the end of her second marriage and was later made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. In 1970, her articles collected and published in 1970's Wallflower at the Orgy and 1975's Crazy Salad. Gifted with a sharp wit, Ephron first made her mark as an essayist. She went east to go to school at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
The daughter of writers, she grew up in Los Angeles, feeling much like an outsider. Early Life and CareerĮphron was born on May 19, 1941, in New York, New York. Ephron died from pneumonia, caused by acute myeloid leukemia, on June 26, 2012, at the age of 71. Later, she wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail and Julie & Julia (2009). Ephron wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy classic When Harry Met Sally. ‘Nora Ephron’s first novel is warm, witty and wise.Nora Ephron's essays first garnered attention in the early 1970s, and by the 1980s, and then she began to transition into screenwriting. I became obsessed with its author and thinly disguised heroine. Heartburn took the most miserable personal situation and made it hysterically funny, inspiring and utterly relatable to women of all ages. A perfect example of Ephron’s gift for turning tragedy into comedy, Heartburn is evidence that revenge is indeed a dish best served cold – Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train I am not a great reader of comic novels, but Ephron’s hilarious, recipe-strewn, semi-autobiographical account of a heavily pregnant woman whose husband has left her for a woman with a ‘neck as long as an arm’ is a treat. This is Nora Ephron’s (screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle) roman a clef: ‘I always thought during the pain of the marriage that one day it would make a funny book,’ she once said – And it is!
Heartburn is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and – most satisfyingly – revenge. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. The fact that this woman has a ‘neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb’ is no consolation. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel’ Nigella Lawson
‘I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other.
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