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  1. In Brief. Phoebe Ephron was a full-time professional playwright and screenwriter, and was also the mother of four daughters, all of whom became professional writers. Phoebe Ephron attended Hunter College before meeting her future husband and collaborator, Henry Ephron, in 1933.

  2. Oct 14, 1971 · Mrs. Phoebe Wolkind Ephron, who with her hushand Henry Ephron had been successful Broadway and Hollywood writer since 1943, died yesterday after a long illness at their home, 176 East 71st...

  3. Jan 26, 2015 · Jan 26, 2015. January 26, 1914, is the birthdate of Phoebe Ephron, a playwright and screenwriter who regularly reminded her four daughters, even as she lay on her deathbed, to “take notes” about everything, as “everything is copy.”

  4. Mar 28, 2016 · Nora’s writer mother Phoebe taught her that “everything is copy.” Even as she was dying, she ordered Nora to take notes. All four Ephron daughters became writers, but Nora, named for the door-slamming heroine of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, most of all mined her own life and those around her for material.

  5. Captain Newman, M.D. What Price Glory. The Jackpot. On the Riviera. Writing. All. Department. Born Phoebe Wolkind in New York 1914, she was active as a playwright and screenwriter, often together with her husband, Henry Ephron, from the early 1940s through the early 1960s.

  6. Mar 18, 2016 · Ephron liked to tell a story about her mother, on her deathbed, issuing a command: “You’re a reporter, Nora. Take notes.”. The thing is, the story of Phoebe Ephronthe suffering half of it, the alcohol part—only began to emerge in writing around the end of Nora Ephrons life.

  7. Phoebe Ephron, Washington DC circa 1943 | Jewish Women's Archive. Phoebe Ephron and her husband Henry Ephron backstage with Eleanor Roosevelt in Washington DC after a performance of their first play, the Broadway hit Three's A Family, which ran from 1943-44. Photo by Del Ankers. Courtesy of Hallie Ephron Touger and Phoebe Ephron's papers. Print.

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