I have no real quarrel with this description, even though I've noticed that the words 'thinly disguised' are applied mostly to books written by women … Philip Roth and John Updike picked away at the carcasses of their early marriages in book after book, but … they were never hit with the thinly disguised thing.'' Her book, Ephron writes, ''is often referred to as a thinly disguised novel. He still is.' It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it!'' ''Everyone always asks, 'Was he mad at you for writing the book?' And I have to say, 'Yes. In the introduction to a new edition of Heartburn, her autobiographical novel about the break-up, Ephron wrote: ''I left out a lot of what happened, but I never get credit for this, especially from my second husband, who ought to be grateful that I did. The resilience from her upbringing served Ephron well, both as a young reporter in the male-dominated world of '60s and early '70s journalism and, later, as a Hollywood screenwriter and director Hollywood, she said, ''had never been very interested in making movies by or about women''.īut it was the disintegration of her second marriage, to investigative reporter Carl Bernstein, who broke the news of Watergate, that really tested her resilience. She once described her vision of her family as: ''A lion that has killed a zebra and all the lions are feeding on it and the coyotes and the jackals …'' Her parents, Phoebe and Henry, were successful screenwriters who excelled at the 1950s Hollywood combination of witty writing and serious alcoholism. Ephron grew up in the sort of household that either crushes a child or turns them into a writer.

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