Ephron graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California, in 1958, and from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1962.

The Hittites are usually depicted as a people living among the Israelites — Abraham purchases the Patriarchal burial-plot of Machpelah from " Ephron HaChiti ", Ephron the Hittite, and Hittites serve as high military officers in David's army.

Ephron also got bits of dialogue from these interviews.

But what makes it special, apart from the Ephron screenplay, is the chemistry between Crystal and Ryan.

Ephron still received letters from people obsessed with the film and still has " people who say to me all the time, ' I was having a Harry-and-Sally relationship with him or her '.

The first was purchased by Abraham for Sarah from Ephron the Hittite ( Gen. 23: 20 ).

The Book of Genesis relates that Abraham specifically purchased the land as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite, making it one of two purchases by Abraham of real estate in the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land.

Abraham buried her in the Cave of the Patriarchs ( also called the Cave of Machpelah ), near Hebron which he had purchased, along with the adjoining field, from Ephron the Hittite and laid her to rest in the cave.

According to the book of Genesis, Abraham purchased the plot of land for her tomb from a man named Ephron the Hittite.

Ephron later conceded, “ No one, apart from my sons, believed me .” Ephron was invited by Arianna Huffington to write about the experience in the Huffington Post on which she was a regular blogger.

On June 26, 2012, Ephron died from pneumonia, a complication resulting from acute myeloid leukemia, a condition with which she was diagnosed in 2006.

He has been married three times, first to a fellow reporter at the Washington Post, Carol Honsa ; then to writer and director Nora Ephron from 1976 to 1980 ; and since 2003 to the former Christine Kuehbeck.

* Dreams on Spec ( 2007 )— The only documentary to follow aspiring screenwriters as they struggle to turn their scripts into movies, the film also features wisdom from established scribes like James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Gary Ross.

Pileggi was married to fellow author, journalist, and screenwriter Nora Ephron from 1987 until her death in 2012.

In 2007, de Souza appeared in the feature-length documentary Dreams on Spec, which profiled three aspiring screenwriters and featured comments from a number of distinguished writers like James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and him.

In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by taking on subjects as wide-ranging as Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post ; Betty Friedan, whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem ; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out a generation of " docile " women.

In the last several years, Mrs. Carpenter's lectureship in the College of Liberal Arts has brought President Bill Clinton, President Gerald Ford, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jehan Sadat, Maya Angelou, Bill Moyers, Jane Goodall, and writers such as Betty Friedan, Nora Ephron, Shana Alexander, and Jean Auel and nationally known humorists such as Fannie Flagg and Carol Channing.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

During the screenwriting process when Ephron would not feel like writing, she would interview people who worked for the production company.

The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked.

Many important writers live or have lived in or near Springs including Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, Nora Ephron, and John Steinbeck.

The magazine has, as a rule, published fewer national and more urban-tabloid stories than its sometime rival, but has also freely veered outside the city's borders, publishing many noteworthy articles on American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Kurt Andersen and John Heilemann.

He also lost the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages.

Bethel was an important centre for Jeroboam's Golden Calf cult ( which used non-Levites as priests ), located on Israel's southern border, which had been allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua, as was Ephron, which is believed to be the Ophrah that was allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua.

* 1912 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 1992 )

When Harry Met Sally … is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner.

An interview Ephron conducted with Reiner provided the basis for Harry.

Sally was based on Ephron and some of her friends.

Ephron supplied the structure of the film with much of the dialogue based on the real-life friendship between Reiner and Crystal.

Ephron received a British Academy Film Award, an Oscar nomination, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for her screenplay.

In 1984, director Rob Reiner, producer Andy Scheinman and writer Nora Ephron met over lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York City to develop a project.

Reiner pitched an idea for a film that Ephron rejected.

Ephron liked the idea, and Reiner acquired a deal at a studio.

Sally was based on Ephron and some of her friends.

Ephron supplied the structure of the film with much of the dialogue based on the real-life friendship between Reiner and Crystal.

Originally, Ephron wanted to call the film How They Met and went through several different titles.

Eventually, Ephron and Reiner realized that it would be a more appropriate ending for them to marry, though they admit that this is generally not a realistic outcome.

Nora Ephron received an Oscar nomination and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for her screenplay.

The film was also nominated for five Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Reiner for Best Director – Motion Picture, Billy Crystal for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Meg Ryan for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Nora Ephron for Best Screenplay.

In 2010 at the 1st Annual 20 / 20 Awards the film was nominated for Best Picture, and Nora Ephron was again nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?