Novel by nora ephron
It’s highly accessible, uses both primary and secondary source material, and is alive with Ephron’s own voice and words throughout. I was predisposed to like Doidge’s biography because of its subject, and I wasn’t disappointed. She was a feminist, an essayist, and a screenwriter: check, check, and check. She loved Jane Austen and reread Pride and Prejudice every year. She was the eldest of four sisters I am the second of five. I felt connected to her in other ways, too. Her 2008 collection, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, is still one of my favorites. From there, I discovered her other work, particularly her essays. I learned Ephron had written the screenplay. I was graduating from high school in 1989 when the rom-com, When Harry Met Sally, was released. “All roads lead to Nora,” Kristin Marguerite Doidge writes at the start of Nora Ephron: A Biography, and I can’t disagree.