Crazy Salad: Some Things about Women

Nora Ephron

Knopf, 1975 - Medical - 201 pages

Contents

• Fantasies: 13
• The Girls in the Office: 22
• Reunion: 28

About the author

Nora Ephron was born in Manhattan on May 19, 1941. While attending Wellesley College, she was a summer intern in the Kennedy White House in 1961. After graduating in 1962, she began her career as a journalist with the New York Post, where she remained until 1968. She then focused on magazine journalism and primarily wrote for Esquire and New York. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Heartburn, Wallflower at the Orgy, Crazy Salad: Some Things about Women, Scribble Scribble, I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Reflections on Being a Woman, and I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections. In her later years, she was a blogger for The Huffington Post. She wrote several screenplays including Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986), and When Harry Met Sally (1989). She also wrote and directed several movies including This Is My Life (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), You've Got Mail (1998), Lucky Numbers (2000), Bewitched (2005), and Julie and Julia (2009). She wrote two plays Love, Loss, and What I Wore with her sister and Imaginary Friends. Her title I Remember Nothing made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. She died from pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia on June 26, 2012 at the age of 71.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Crazy Salad: Some Things about Women; A Borzoi book
• Author: Nora Ephron
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf, 1975
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Jun 27, 2008
• ISBN: 039449735X, 9780394497358
• Length: 201 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics; Social Science / Sociology / General