LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
07.01-08.12
Farewell,
Nora
ORA EPHRON is gone
— and I can’t believe
it. I had just gotten
home from dinner
Monday night when her son Max
called me. “Mom is not going to
wake up,” he told me.
What made the news so difficult to take in was that whenever
I was around Nora through the
years the air crackled with energy
and ideas and one-liners — and a
sense of celebration. She excelled
in so many different forms —
magazines, novels, essays, movies,
plays and yes, blogs. She wrote
close to 100 posts for HuffPost
over the years, each containing
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countless examples of her priceless wit and insight — touching
on everything from politics to pop
culture to food (one of her specialties) to the summer joys of
Shakespeare in the Park.
She was an integral part of the
HuffPost family — an investor, supporter, contributing editor and godmother of our Divorce section and
Breakover series. So I would like to
dedicate this double issue of Huffington to Nora. Professionally, her
legacy will be that of an excep-
Nora and
Arianna
in 2010