Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron writes novels, essays, screenplays, and plays whose work often blends romantic comedy with candid family experience. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life recounts a period marked by bereavement, an unexpected reconnection with psychiatrist Peter Rutter, a life-threatening diagnosis, demanding treatment, and recovery. Little, Brown published the memoir in 2022. Ephron writes about fear and medical uncertainty without losing the quick conversational humor familiar from her screen work. She collaborated with her sister Nora Ephron on films including You’ve Got Mail and also adapted fiction, wrote novels, and published essay collections. That varied career gives the memoir a strong sense of scene and dialogue, but its emotional movement depends on the ordinary exchanges through which friendship becomes late-life love. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life later became the basis for Ephron’s stage adaptation. The book stands as both a personal account of rebuilding and a writer’s examination of how comedy, companionship, and persistence can coexist with profound uncertainty.