By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Nora Ephron, the celebrated writer/director of hits such as Julie & Julia, Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail, died at 71 Tuesday at New York's Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center after a battle with leukemia, according to her family.

Ephron -- a journalist and best-selling author prior to her screen career -- was married three times. At the time of her death, she was married for more than 20 years to screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, with whom she lived in New York City.

From 1976 to 1980, she was married to her second husband, Wate