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Amy Ephron’s Biography

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Amy Ephron has had a varied professional career. She is a journalist, essayist, humorist, novelist, including a stint at Sesame Street & The Electric Company, studio exec at Columbia Pictures, producer, novelist, and most recently published a series of middle-grade books which she calls a modern day mash-up of an old-fashioned children's book, "The Castle in the Mist"; "Carnival Magic"; and the upcoming "The Other Side of the Wall" (October 1st, 2019) from Philomel Books/Penguin Kids. She oft…

Amy Ephron’s Journalist Portfolio

Beverly Hills Cop: Meet 90210's First Female Police Chief

Beverly Hills Cop: Meet 90210's First Female Police Chief

Her office is big. Hollywood-movie-set big. Dark brown leather couches, lush, surprisingly comfortable. A big…

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Marveling at the Super Bloom: Amy Ephron Visits Death Valley

Marveling at the Super Bloom: Amy Ephron Visits Death Valley

Rarely (every 14 years or so), a super bloom erupts in Death Valley and the desert is briefly (carpeted would…

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You Can Call Her Mayor Brown: How Aja Brown Is Transforming the City of Compton

You Can Call Her Mayor Brown: How Aja Brown Is Transforming the City of Compton

Her name is Aja (because her mother liked the Steely Dan song), but you can call her Mayor Brown. Compton, th…

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Endless Summer: A Vogue Editor Reflects on a Lifetime in Sandals

Endless Summer: A Vogue Editor Reflects on a Lifetime in Sandals

I remember my first pair of sandals. They were white and they had a moderately thick strap across the top of …

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Champagne by the Case

Champagne by the Case

The bubbly flowed, the diamonds too. For one good-time girl in '70s L.A., it seemed as if the party would nev…

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Writers' Room Live: Aliza Licht and Amy Ephron Discuss Her Novel, Unseasonably Cold

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By Aliza Licht, Amy Ephron Verified
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I’ve interviewed a lot of writers over the years, but Amy Ephron may have one of the most intuitive writing processes I’ve ever encountered. The first surprise came early in our conversation when Amy revealed that when she began writing Unseasonably Cold, she had absolutely no idea what had happened to Jane, the missing socialite at the center of the novel. She didn’t know where the story was going, who was responsible, or even how it would end. She discovered the answers as she wrote them.
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Amy Ephron discusses & signs Unseasonably Cold

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By Amy Ephron Verified
| booksoup.com
A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions. Replete with beautifully observed period detail and sharply drawn characters, Unseasonably Cold is classic storytelling, a mystery crafted with an artist's eye.
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Unseasonably Cold

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By Amy Ephron Verified
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Fans of Stockett’s bestselling debut will love this engaging follow-up. Stockett heads to Mississippi for another historical novel about feisty women. This time, perhaps recalling criticisms of cultural appropriation in The Help (2009), she sticks to feisty white women, with one exception. The setting is Oxford in 1933. For two miserable years, 11-year-old Meg has lived in “the Orphan,” a county asylum for parentless girls.
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What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

"A Cup of Tea" a novel of 1917, HarperCollins; and "The Castle in the Mist" series.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Write.

What's your favorite drink?

fresh lemonade