Erich Segal

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Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937-2010) was an American writer, screenwriter, educator, and classicist.

He was best known for writing the best-selling book Love Story (1970) and the hit motion picture of the same name.

Early life and education

Segal, the first of three brothers, was born and raised in a Jewish household in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a rabbi and his mother was a homemaker. As an infant, his obsession with writing and narrating stories began. He went to Midwood High School, where he suffered a serious injury while canoeing. His mentor encouraged him to jog as part of his recovery, but it soon became his obsession and led him to participate in the Boston Marathon for the second time. He studied at Harvard College, graduating as both the class poet and Latin salutatorian in 1958 and then receiving his master's degree (in 1965) and a doctorate (in 1965) in comparative literature from Harvard University, after which he began teaching at Yale.

Personal life

Segal lived with Karen James from 1975 to his death; the two children, Miranda and Francesca Segal, were born in 1975. Francesca, a writer, literary scholar, and columnist, was born in 1980.

Segal, a Parkinson's disease sufferer, died of a heart attack on January 17, 2010 and was buried in London. "That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such ferocious obduracy, is a testament to his ostensibility that saw him pursue his teaching, writing, his running, and my mother, who all had the same tenacity." He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know."

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Writing career

Segal was given the opportunity to contribute on the screenplay for the Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine, based on a Lee Minoff tale.

Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus (1968), his first academic book, was published by the Harvard University Press, earned him a lot of attention and immortalized the great Roman comic playwright, who was best known today as the source for the Broadway hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962).

Segal appeared on other screenplays in the late 1960s. He had also written a romantic tale about a Harvard undergraduate and a Radcliffe student but was unable to sell it. However, William Morris Agency literary agent Lois Wallace suggested that the script be turned into a book, and the result was Love Story (1970). No. 21 is a newspaper published in New York City. The book was a best-selling novel in the United States for 1970, and it has since been translated into 33 languages around the world. The motion picture of the same name was the most popular box office attraction of 1970.

Segal's copy of the novel was proving difficult. He admitted that its success ignited "egotism bordering on megalomania," but that he was denied tenure at Yale. "Love Story" was also withdrawn from the National Book Awards' nomination list after the fiction jury threatened to resign. The book "completely destroyed me," Segal later said. He would continue to write more books and screenplays, including the 1977 sequel to Love Story, called Oliver's Story.

Segal also wrote extensively on Greek and Latin literature and published a number of academic papers, as well as teaching Greek and Latin literature at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton universities. He had been a Supernumerary Fellow and an Honorary Fellow at Wolfson College in Oxford, England. He served as a visiting professor at Princeton, the University of Munich, and Dartmouth College.

His book The Class (1985), a saga based on the Harvard Class of 1958, became a best-selling book in France and Italy, and he has received national recognition. Doctors (1988) was another New York Times bestseller. The Death of Comedy, Robert Keroun's book on the history of theatre, was released in 2001.

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