Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron (/ˈɛfrən/ EF-rən;^[4] born July 12, 1944) is an American writer and film producer.^[5]

Delia Ephron
Ephron in 2013
Born	(1944-07-12) July 12, 1944 (age 80) New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Novelist, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1979–present
Spouses	Jerome Kass ​ ​ (m. 1982; died 2015)​ Peter Rutter ​ (m. 2017)​ [1][2][3]
Parent(s)	Henry Ephron Phoebe Ephron
Relatives	Nora Ephron (sister) Amy Ephron (sister) Hallie Ephron (sister) June Gale (stepmother)

Early life

Ephron was born in New York City, the second eldest of four daughters of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron. She grew up in Beverly Hills.

Career

Ephron's 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 made her Broadway debut as a solo 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] In 2014 she had written a New York Times op-ed reacting to a shocking plot twist on Julianna Margulies' TV drama The Good Wife.^[12]

Filmography

Screenplays

• How to Eat Like a Child (TV special, 1981)
• Brenda Starr (1989) – as by "Jenny Wolkind"^[13]
• This Is My Life (1992)
• Mixed Nuts (1994)
• Michael (1996)
• You've Got Mail (1998)
• Hanging Up (2000)
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
• Bewitched (2005)

Producer

• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• You've Got Mail (1998)
• Hanging Up (2000)

Books

Ephron in New York, September 17, 2013, Barnes & Noble.

• (with Lorraine Bodger, under name Delia Brock) The Adventurous Crocheter
• My Life and Nobody Else's
• Santa and Alex
• How to Eat Like a Child (1979), illustrated by cartoonist Edward Koren
• The Girl Who Changed the World
• Teenage Romance: Or, How to Die of Embarrassment (1981)
• Funny Sauce (1986)
• Do I Have to Say Hello?: Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids/Grownups (1991)
• Hanging Up (1995)
• Big City Eyes (2000)
• Frannie in Pieces (2007)
• The Girl with the Mermaid Hair (2010)
• The Lion Is In (2012)
• Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc (2013)
• Siracusa (2016)
• Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life (2022)