Nora Ephron, Essayist, Screenwriter and Director, Dies at 71

Nora Ephron, an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold (only smarter and funnier, some said) who became one of her eras most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits like and When Harry Met Sally, died Tuesday night in Manhattan. She was 71. The cause was pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia, her son Jacob Bernstein said. In a commencement address she delivered in 1996 at Wellesley College, her alma mater, Ms. Ephron recalled that women of her generation werent expected to do much of anything. But she wound up having several careers, all of