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Making Space with Hoda Kotb

Delia Ephron: “Your Writing Is Your Fingerprint”

Making Space with Hoda Kotb

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4.910.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Screenplay writer and author Delia Ephron connects with Hoda on finding joy after 50 and getting a second chance at life and love on this episode of Making Space.

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm gonna name two of the most popular movies of our lifetime and I want you to pause

0:11.5

for a moment and just remember the joy those movies brought to you.

0:16.2

Okay, ready?

0:18.0

You've got mail and sisterhood of the traveling pants come on!

0:23.4

They're too good!

0:25.7

And both of those screenplays were co-written by my guest today.

0:30.1

She has also written dozens of books many of which are bestsellers.

0:34.5

I'm talking today with Delia Efron.

0:38.2

Now her last name may sound familiar to you, she's the younger sister of Nora Efron, queen

0:43.7

of the romantic comedy, a voice for a generation of women.

0:48.1

Get this, she wrote when Harry Met Sally and sleepless in Seattle.

0:52.8

Nora passed away in 2012 after a private battle with cancer.

0:57.2

I happen to pick up Delia's latest book, Left on 10th, A Second Chance at Life.

1:02.8

And I'm wondering, man, why haven't we also been talking about Delia all these years?

1:08.4

She's just like her sister, her writing is incredible, it's so beautiful.

1:13.4

I just didn't want to put the book down.

1:15.4

Here's what you should know about Delia and I recently learned a lot of this myself.

1:19.6

She's one of four Efron sisters, defined by her family as the funny one.

1:24.6

And that comes out in her amazing body of work.

1:27.4

Essays or op-ed screenplays and novels, but she doesn't just write to pay bills, she

1:33.2

writes to heal.

1:35.4

Delia has suffered a lot of loss in her lifetime, first her sister Nora to cancer, and then

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