Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor

While the Academy Award-winning writer and director Nora Ephron has passed away after battling a form of leukemia, she leaves behind a legacy of life lessons to be learned through the wisdom, humor and insight of her

Tweet I am sitting here with an open box of mail from and to Nora Ephron between the years of the early 60s and a month ago. It should be crammed but I realize from reading my own answers to Nora.

Nora Ephron, 2010. Everyone's dying but not Nora. Nora was supposed to be here forever. Who else is going to tell us that egg white omelettes are bullshit?

Tweet I am sitting here with an open box of mail from and to Nora Ephron between the years of the early 60s and a month ago. It should be crammed but I realize from reading my own answers to Nora.

She was one of our wittiest writers, in any form, and she's perhaps best appreciated in her sly, wisely original lines—they are works of beautiful brevity. Here are