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Then stay with us as we continue the conversation with Amy, as she reflects on her childhood, as the daughter of successful screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, and younger sister to the writers Nora, Delia, and Hallie, and on her own eclectic career as a novelist, screenwriter, journalist and film producer.

"When you're a writer you put yourself out there," notes Amy, author of several books, including the novels A Cup of Tea, Bruised Fruit, and The Other Side series of novels for children, and a longtime contributor to Vanity Fair, Vogue, The New York Times, and Air Mail.

"People who have other jobs don't necessarily understand what that means, that in a way you're selling your own voice, you're selling your own vision.

The Latest Generation of Ephrons Joins Forces to Write a Book on Baby Names

Nora, the oldest, who died in 2012, is the best known of the second generation of Ephrons, as a screenwriter for several blockbuster romantic comedies that include When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. She also wrote the screenplay for Silkwood and, with sister Delia, You’ve Got Mail.

And I don't mean to make it more than it is, it's just that we are indelibly freelance, and you don't know what your next job is. Quite a lot, according to Amy Ephron, Maia Wapnick and Anna Ephron Harari, co-authors of The Amazing Baby Name Book: A (Possibly) Helpful and Slightly Amusing Guide from A to Z, a witty and wise and altogether wonderful compendium of baby names for would-be parents.

So it's a brave choice to be a writer, I think. “People who have other jobs don’t necessarily understand what that means, that in a way you’re selling your own voice, you’re selling your own vision. Both have written for magazines and newspapers as well, including Vogue, O, and the Los Angeles Times and New York Times magazines.

Now a third generation is blossoming.

And when that name is Ephron, and it comes attached to a writing family that’s lived by its wits and wisdom and abundant sense of wonder for three generations…well, then that name signals that our podcast listeners are in for a rollicking conversation about writing and storytelling.

Join us as we visit with Amy, Maia, and Anna to discuss how their mother-daughter(s) collaboration came about, and what it was like to grow up in a household where the written word was something to nourish and celebrate.

For anyone.”

No matter your name.

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As Delia once wrote in The New York Times in an essay about the cyber theft of her own name, “My mother made a huge fuss about her daughters’ names. Then stay with us as we continue the conversation with Amy, as she reflects on her childhood, as the daughter of successful screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, and younger sister to the writers Nora, Delia, and Hallie, and on her own eclectic career as a novelist, screenwriter, journalist and film producer.

“When you’re a writer you put yourself out there,” notes Amy, author of several books, including the novels A Cup of Tea, Bruised Fruit, and The Other Side series of novels for children, and a longtime contributor to Vanity Fair, Vogue, The New York Times, and Air Mail.

Quite a lot, according to Amy Ephron, Maia Wapnick and Anna Ephron Harari, co-authors of The Amazing Baby Name Book: A (Possibly) Helpful and Slightly Amusing Guide from A to Z, a witty and wise and altogether wonderful compendium of baby names for would-be parents. So it’s a brave choice to be a writer, I think.

And when that name is Ephron, and it comes attached to a writing family that's lived by its wits and wisdom and abundant sense of wonder for three generations…well, then that name signals that our podcast listeners are in for a rollicking conversation about writing and storytelling.

Join us as we visit with Amy, Maia, and Anna to discuss how their mother-daughter(s) collaboration came about, and what it was like to grow up in a household where the written word was something to nourish and celebrate.

And at the same time, you have the ability to create your own next job, but you don't know how that will land. But younger sisters Hallie and Amy are also successful authors in their own right, with dozens of books to their credit, spanning genres that include essays, memoir, novels, suspense and young adult fiction. And at the same time, you have the ability to create your own next job, but you don’t know how that will land.

For anyone."

No matter your name.

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Please support the sponsors who support our show.

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Jan 3, 2023

What’s in a name? Amy’s daughters, Anna Ephron Harari and Maia Wapnick (Amy also has a son, Ethan Harari, a talent manager in LA), have teamed up with their mom to author The Amazing Baby Name Book: A (Possibly) Helpful and Slightly Amusing Guide from A to Z (September 2022).

She bragged often that we had names that no one else had.”

What's in a name?

amy ephron daughter of nora ephron

And I don’t mean to make it more than it is, it’s just that we are indelibly freelance, and you don’t know what your next job is.