Bestselling Author and Screenwriter Delia Ephron began her writing career when she published a 500-word humorist essay in The New York Times Magazine entitled “How to Eat Like a Child.” The piece would become a bestselling book, television special, and musical revue. Known for her amusing and thoughtful writing style, Ephron brings to the stage her hilarious and poignant spin on life’s absurdities and obsessions, relationships, and hardships. With 14 published books, Ephron will also discuss the creative process, from channeling life's hardships to the key to successful collaborations. In 2022, Ephron returns with a new and hig...
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Bestselling Author and Screenwriter Delia Ephron began her writing career when she published a 500-word humorist essay in The New York Times Magazine entitled “How to Eat Like a Child.” The piece would become a bestselling book, television special, and musical revue. Known for her amusing and thoughtful writing style, Ephron brings to the stage her hilarious and poignant spin on life’s absurdities and obsessions, relationships, and hardships. With 14 published books, Ephron will also discuss the creative process, from channeling life’s hardships to the key to successful collaborations. In 2022, Ephron returns with a new and highly anticipated book, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life which tells her own late-in-life love story, complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution.
Her novel, Siracusa, was a New York Times bestseller and named a Staff Pick by Publishers Weekly. Emotive and witty, Siracusa tells the story of two strained marriages put to the test while vacationing in a Sicilian coast town. “This is literature that keeps the pages turning,” wrote Publishers Weekly. “Ephron’s bringing together her beautifully developed characters and placing them out of their comfort zone, adding drama from the past mixed with the drama of the present and never losing a sense of humor makes for a wonderful book.” Named one of the ten best books of 2016 by People and one of Vulture’s 100 greatest beach books ever, Siracusa is available as an audiobook featuring John Slattery and will be adapted into a feature film written by Ephron and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon of the Sundance-hit Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
With her sister Nora, Delia produced and co-wrote You’ve Got Mail and Hanging Up. She was also a co-screenwriter on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and an associate producer on Sleepless in Seattle. For the first time since You’ve Got Mail, Delia is reteaming with Meg Ryan, who will direct The Book, based on a story by Ephron.
In 2008, Delia and Nora adapted Love, Loss and What I Wore for the stage, running off-Broadway for over two-and-a-half years and winning a Drama Desk Award. The Ephron sisters expanded the book into a collection of stories and monologues about relationships, clothes, and memory.
Delia’s book of essays, Sister Mother Husband Dog (etc.), is a stark yet humorous reflection on the death of her sister, her favorite bakeries, her journey to becoming a writer, her parent’s alcoholism, and her unabashed love for her dog.
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THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE
DELIA EPHRON ON LIFE AND CHANGE
THE HUMAN HEART: SECRETS, INTRIGUES, AND RELATIONSHIPS
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Delia Ephron: Sister Mother Husband Dog
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