Death of Nora Ephron

May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012
New York, New York | Age 71

Writer-filmmaker dies at 71
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HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.

"She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie Fisher. "It makes no sense to me that she isn't alive anymore."

Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who challenged and thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism and was loved, respected and feared for her devastating and diverting wit, died...

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