Hallie Ephron

{{Short description|American writer (born 1948)}}

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| name = Hallie Ephron

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|3|9}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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| years_active = 2000–present

| occupation = Novelist, journalist

| spouse = Jerold Touger (died 2021)

| children = 2

| parents = Henry Ephron
Phoebe Ephron

| relatives = {{Unbulleted list|

Nora Ephron (sister)|

Amy Ephron (sister)|

Delia Ephron (sister)|

June Gale (stepmother)

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Hallie Elizabeth Ephron (born March 9, 1948){{cite web|url=http://birth-records.mooseroots.com/l/19489177/Hallie-Elizabeth-Ephron|title=Hallie Elizabeth Ephron (b. 1948)|author=|date=|publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} is an American novelist, book reviewer, journalist, and writing teacher. She is the author of mystery and suspense novels. Her novels Never Tell a Lie, There Was an Old Woman, Come and Find Me, and Night Night, Sleep Tight were finalists for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. In 2011, Never Tell a Lie was made into a Lifetime television movie entitled And Baby Will Fall, starring Anastasia Griffith, Brendan Fehr, and Clea DuVall.

You'll Never Know, Dear was published in June 2017 by William Morrow and Company.{{cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062473615/youll-never-know-dear|title=You'll Never Know, Dear – Hallie Ephron – Hardcover|first=Hallie|last=Ephron|date=|publisher=}} Her how-to book, Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel, was nominated for a 2006 Edgar Award with an updated edition released in 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.writersdigestshop.com/writing-and-selling-your-mystery-novel-revised-and-expanded|title=Discover the Secrets to Crafting an Unforgettable Mystery – WritersDigestShop|author=|date=|publisher=|access-date=2017-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808004351/http://www.writersdigestshop.com/writing-and-selling-your-mystery-novel-revised-and-expanded|archive-date=2017-08-08|url-status=dead}} She is also the award-winning crime fiction book reviewer for the Boston Globe and teaches fiction writing at writing conferences."Hallie Ephron on Her Own", Publishers Weekly, 2008. 255, no. 46: 36-36.Rigney, M. "WD Interview: Hallie Ephron", The Writer's Digest, 2002. no. Sep: 36-37. For twelve years Ephron reviewed crime fiction for the Boston Globe.