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Delia Ephron (/ˈɛfrən/ EF-rən;[4] born July 12, 1944) is an American bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright.[5]
Delia Ephron
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Ephron in 2013
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| Born | (1944-07-12) July 12, 1944 (age 80)
New York City, U.S.
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| Occupation(s) | Novelist, screenwriter, producer |
| Years active | 1979–present |
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(m. 1982; died 2015)Peter Rutter (m. 2017) |
| Parent(s) | Henry Ephron Phoebe Ephron |
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Ephron was born in New York City, the second eldest of four daughters of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron. Her movies include You've Got Mail, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,[6] Hanging Up (based on her novel), and Michael. She has written novels for adults (Hanging Up, The Lion Is In and the recent Siracusa) and teenagers (Frannie in Pieces and The Girl with the Mermaid Hair), books of humor (How to Eat Like a Child), and essays. Her family is Jewish.[7]
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Vogue, More, The Wall Street Journal, and The Huffington Post. In 2011, she won an Athena Film Festival award for creativity and panache as a screenwriter.[8]
Ephron collaborated with her elder sister, Nora, on Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which ran for over two and a half years Off-Broadway. It has played in cities across the U.S., as well as in cities around the world, including Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Manila, and Sydney.[9][10]
In Fall 2024, Ephron will make her Broadway debut as a playwright, with a stage adaptation of her autobiography, Left on Tenth, directed by Susan Stroman and starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher at the James Earl Jones Theatre. [11]
