Ephron was famed for her fierce intellect and unsparing sense of humor, and as is so often the case with funny people, the combination could alienate those in her crosshairs. “I thought, ‘Huh, here’s a woman writing through the women’s rights movement and going on to make these earnest romantic comedies, what would she make of that?’”īesides outlining a compact chronology of Ephron’s early years and the career she maintained to her deathbed, Doidge’s book highlights the contradictions of the soul contained within a cynical romantic as quick to belittle those close to her as she was to love them. “Around this time, I’d also become invested in this idea that research shows young people are getting married less and waiting longer to do it, and I was curious about why that’s happening,” she says. She came to see Ephron’s fully formed, well-documented worldview as a lens through which she could look at today’s reality. The unusual trajectory of Ephron’s career, which began with a groundbreaking tenure in journalism and didn’t reach the directing phase until her 50s, gave Doidge something she could connect to. Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally … Photograph: Columbia Pictures/Allstarĭoidge came to kneel at the altar of Nora in 2014, as she searched for a subject capable of sustaining her master’s thesis. As a kid, you don’t even really get the joke!” And isn’t that telling, how the woman experiencing pleasure was seen as too much for a kid. I heard of When Harry Met Sally … but I wasn’t allowed to watch it! Too scandalous, never knew why at the time. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I saw Sleepless in Seattle. I never associated Nora with Silkwood prior to working on this book. “I feel bad saying it, but I wasn’t a diehard. Though Doidge can hardly blame them it wasn’t so long ago that she considered herself an Ephron neophyte. I teach at a university, and when I say her name, I get a lot of blank stares. A lot of the younger generation doesn’t even know Nora and her movies. That’s just one part of her, and what she stands for. The general public tends to think of her as the romantic comedy queen, the lady who did You’ve Got Mail. Some people find her much later, when she was feeling bad about her neck. “Some people might have seen Heartburn before anything else, or maybe you remember seeing This Is My Life with your grandma. “She wrote for five or six decades, and so everyone comes to her from a different angle,” Doidge tells the Guardian from her home in Los Angeles.
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