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Erich Segal

Born	Erich Wolf Segal (1937-06-16)June 16, 1937 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	January 17, 2010(2010-01-17) (aged 72) London, England
Occupation	Author screenwriter educator
Alma mater	Harvard University (A.B., A.M., PhD)
Spouse	Karen Marianne James (1975–2010; his death; 2 children)
Website
erichsegal.com

Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist. He was best known for writing the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and the hit motion picture of the same name.

Early life [edit]

Erich Segal, born and brought up in a kosher household in Brooklyn, New York, was the first of three brothers. His father was a rabbi and his mother was a homemaker. His interest in writing and narrating stories developed as a child. He went to Midwood High School, during which he suffered a serious accident while canoeing. His coach advised him to jog as a part of his rehabilitation which ended up becoming his passion and caused him to participate in the Boston Marathon more than 12 times. Later, he got an opportunity to be a commentator for the ABC Olympics in 1972 and at Montreal in 1976. He attended Harvard College, graduating as both the class poet and Latin salutatorian in 1958, and then he obtained his master's degree (in 1959) and a doctorate (in 1965) in comparative literature from Harvard University,^[1] after which he started teaching at Yale. His book 'Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus' published by the Harvard University Press in 1968, gave him considerable recognition. Further, because of a few connections on Broadway, he also got an opportunity to collaborate on the screenplay for the Beatles film "Yellow Submarine".

Professorship [edit]

Segal was a professor of Greek and Latin literature at Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University. He had been a Supernumerary Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University.^[2]

Writing career [edit]

His first academic book, Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus, revolutionized the great Roman comic playwright best known today as the inspiration for the Broadway hit, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.^{[ citation needed ]} In 2001 he published a book on the history of theatre called The Death of Comedy.^[3]

Yellow Submarine [edit]

In 1967, from the story by Lee Minoff, he was one of the writers of the screenplay for The Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine.

Love Story [edit]

In the late 1960s, Segal collaborated on other screenplays. He had also written a romantic story about a Harvard student and a Radcliffe student but failed to sell it. However, literary agent Lois Wallace at the William Morris Agency suggested he turn the script into a novel, and the result was a motion picture phenomenon titled Love Story. A New York Times No. 1 bestseller, the book became the top selling work of fiction for 1970 in the United States, and was translated into 33 languages worldwide. The motion picture of the same name was the number one box office attraction of 1970.

The novel proved problematic for Segal. He acknowledged that its success unleashed "egotism bordering on megalomania" and he was denied tenure at Yale. Moreover, "Love Story" "was ignominiously bounced from the nomination slate of the National Book Awards after the fiction jury threatened to resign." Segal later said that the book "totally ruined me."^[4]

Segal wrote more novels and screenplays, including the 1977 sequel to Love Story, titled Oliver's Story.

Writing and teaching after Love Story [edit]

He wrote widely on Greek and Latin literature. He published a number of scholarly works as well as teaching at the university level.^{[ citation needed ]} He acted as a visiting professor for the University of Munich, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College. His novel The Class (1985), a saga based on the Harvard Class of 1958, was a bestseller, and won literary honor in France and Italy.^{[ citation needed ]} Doctors was another New York Times bestseller.

Marathons [edit]

Segal was an accomplished competitive runner. He was a sprinter at Midwood High School, and ran the 2 mile at Harvard College. He began marathon running during his second year at Harvard when track and field head coach Bill McCurdy was impressed with how fast he had run 10 miles.^[5] Segal ran in the Boston Marathon almost every year from 1955 to 1975.^[6] He finished in 79th place at 3 hours, 43 minutes in his first attempt,^[5] and his best performance was in 1964 when he finished 63rd with a time of 2:56:30. He recounted that after one Boston marathon someone yelled "Hey, Segal, you run better than you write".^[7]

Segal covered the marathon as a color commentator for telecasts of both the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics.^[8] His most notable broadcast was in 1972 when he and Jim McKay called Frank Shorter's gold-medal-winning performance. When an impostor, West German student Norbert Sudhaus, ran into Olympic Stadium ahead of Shorter,^[9] an emotionally upset Segal screamed "That is an impostor! Get him off the track! This happens in bush league marathons! Throw the bum out! Get rid of that guy!" Moments later, he personalized his on‑air remarks by saying "Come on, Frank! You won it! It's a fake, Frank!"^[10] Amby Burfoot called Segal's account "one of the most unprofessional, unbridled, and totally appropriate outbursts in the history of Olympic TV commentary", taking into consideration the fact that Segal had taught Shorter at Yale.^[7] In 2000, The Washington Post included the phrase among the 10 most memorable American sports calls.^[11]

Family [edit]

Segal was married to Karen James from 1975 until his death; they had two daughters, Miranda and Francesca Segal. Francesca, born in 1980, is a freelance journalist, literary critic, and columnist.

Death [edit]

Segal, who suffered from Parkinson's disease,^[12] died of a heart attack on January 17, 2010,^[13] and was buried in London. In a eulogy delivered at his funeral, his daughter Francesca said "That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was – a blind obsessionality that saw him pursue his teaching, his writing, his running and my mother, with just the same tenacity. He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know."^[14]

Filmography [edit]

Yellow Submarine (1968)
The Games (1970)
R. P. M. (1970)
Love Story (1970)
Jennifer on My Mind (1971)
Oliver's Story (1978)
A Change of Seasons (1980)
Man, Woman and Child (1983)

Bibliography [edit]

Segal, Erich (1970) [1968], Roman laughter: the comedy of Plautus, Harvard studies in comparative literature, Harvard University Press, OCLC 253490621
Segal, Erich (1968), Euripides. A collection of critical essays, Prentice-Hall, OCLC 490074853
Segal, Erich (1993) [1970], Love Story, Oxford bookworms, Oxford University Press, OCLC 271780786
Segal, Erich (1973), Fairy tale, Hodder and Stoughton, ISBN978-0-340-17703-7, OCLC 476324471
Segal, Erich (1977), Oliver's Story, Granada, ISBN978-0-246-11007-7
Segal, Erich (1980), Man, Woman and Child, Granada, ISBN978-0-246-11364-1
Segal, Erich (1983), Oxford readings in Greek tragedy, Oxford University Press, ISBN978-0-19-872110-9, OCLC 489881338
Millar, Fergus; Erich Segal (1984). Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects. Clarendon Press. ISBN0-19-814858-5.
Segal, Erich (1985), The Class, Bantam, ISBN978-0-593-01004-4
Segal, Erich (1988), Doctors, Toronto, ISBN978-0-553-05294-7
Segal, Erich (1992), Acts of Faith, OCLC 472522180
Segal, Erich (1995), Prizes, Bantam, ISBN978-0-593-03837-6
Segal, Erich (1996), Four comedies : the braggart soldier, the brothers Menaechmus, the haunted house, the pot of gold, World's classics, Oxford University Press, ISBN978-0-19-283108-8, OCLC 57136525
Segal, Erich (1997), Only love , G.P. Putnam's Sons, ISBN978-0-399-14341-0
Segal, Erich (2001), The death of comedy, Harvard University Press, ISBN978-0-674-00643-0, OCLC 464104819
Segal, Erich (2001), Oxford readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence, Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN978-0-19-872193-2, OCLC 248042166
Pelzer, Linda C. (1997), Erich Segal: A Critical Companion, Greenwood Press, ISBN0-313-29930-7

References [edit]

^ Tanne, Lindsay P. (June 1, 2008). "Erich W. Segal, Screenwriter". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on June 9, 2008. Retrieved February 23, 2009.
^ "Obituaries: Erich Segal (1937–2010)". Wolfson College Record, 2010 Archived June 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, pages 29–32.
^ "The Death of Comedy — Erich Segal". www.hup.harvard.edu . Retrieved February 17, 2021.
^ https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-erich-segal20-2010jan20-story.html^{[ bare URL ]}
^ ^a ^b Amdur, Neil (April 5, 1971). "'Love Story' may end love affair with Boston Marathon". The Miami News. New York Times News Service. pp. 4B. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
^ Tanne, Lindsay P. "Erich W. Segal, Screenwriter," The Harvard Crimson (Harvard University), Sunday, June 1, 2008.
^ ^a ^b Burfoot, Amby (January 20, 2010). "Love Story Author Erich Segal Loved To Run". Runner's World . Retrieved November 16, 2014.
^ Stracher, Cameron. "Running Without a Narrative," The New York Times, Friday, October 30, 2009.
^ "Olympic Memories: Munich's Marathon Imposter, Frank Shorter, and the 'Running Boom' of the 1970s," Colorsport, Thursday, May 3, 2012. Archived July 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ "ABC coverage of the 'imposter' at the 1972 Olympic marathon," Classic Sports TV and Media (blog), Tuesday, September 4, 2012.
^ washingtonpost.com poll
^ Chris Smyth and Mary Bowers (January 20, 2010). "Erich Segal, the academic who wrote Love Story, dies at 72". The Times. London.
^ Pauli, Michelle (January 19, 2010). "Love Story author Erich Segal dies aged 72: Erich Segal, author of the hugely successful story of love and bereavement, has died". The Observer. London.
^ Selva, Meera (January 19, 2010). "'Love Story' author Erich Segal dies aged 72". Associated Press. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2010.

External links [edit]

Official Erich Segal Website
Erich Segal at the Database of Classical Scholars, author: Mary Lefkowitz
Erich Segal at IMDb
Weber, Bruce (January 20, 2010). "Erich Segal, 'Love Story' Author, Dies". The New York Times . Retrieved January 19, 2010.