Delia ephron and jerome kass

Delia Ephron has been a best-selling author since 1978, when her first book, How to Eat Like a Child, was published to critical acclaim.

Delia ephron and jerome kass

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Jerome Kass, Writer for Broadway, Film and TV, Dies at 78

Delia Ephron’s second chance at life after loss – The Irish Times

In the decades since, she’s written dozens of essays, books, and plays, as well as screenplays for hit feature films like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and You’ve Got Mail.

But her new memoir, Left on Tenth, is her most personal book.

In 2015, just three years after the death of her beloved older sister, the legendary writer-director Nora Ephron, her husband of 37 years, Jerome Kass, died after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. A year later, Ephron, then 72, reconnected with an acquaintance from college and began an intense whirlwind romance, which was soon overshadowed by her own cancer diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia, the same disease that took Nora’s life.

In Left on Tenth, Ephron writes of the losses, love, challenges, and