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Early life

The son of a rabbi, Segal attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn and traveled to Switzerland to take summer courses. He attended Harvard University, graduating as both the class poet and Latin salutatorian in 1958, after which he obtained his master's degree and a doctorate. For the town in Italy, see Rabbi, Italy. ... Midwood High School, at Brooklyn College, is a public, urban, co-ed high school located on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. ... Harvard redirects here. ... For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... In the United States and Canada, the title of salutatorian is given to the second-highest graduate of the entire graduating class of an educational institution. ... Jan. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Teaching career

He was a professor of Greek and Latin literature at Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. He now is teaching at Wolfson College, Oxford. Harvard redirects here. ... Yale redirects here. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Wolfson College may refer to: Wolfson College, Oxford Wolfson College, Cambridge This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ...

Writing career

Yellow Submarine

In 1967, from the story by Lee Minoff, he wrote the screenplay for The Beatles 1968 motion picture, Yellow Submarine. Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Sample from a screenplay, showing dialogue and action descriptions. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... For the song, see Yellow Submarine (song). ...

Love Story

In the late 1960s, Segal collaborated on other screenplays, and also had written a synthetic romantic story by himself about a Harvard 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 literary and motion picture phenomenon called Love Story. A New York Times No. 1 bestseller, the book became the top selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States, and was translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. The motion picture of the same name was the number one box office attraction of 1971. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969. ... Harvard redirects here. ... Radcliffe College was a liberal arts womens college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, closely associated with Harvard University. ... A literary agent is an agent that represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. ... Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency was the largest diversified talent and literary agency in the world, with offices in New York, Beverly Hills, Nashville, Miami, London, and Shanghai. ... Sample from a screenplay, showing dialogue and action descriptions. ... For other uses, see Novel (disambiguation). ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Love Story is a 1970 romance novel by American writer Erich Segal. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Love Story is a 1970 romance novel by American writer Erich Segal. ... The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ...

Erich Segal went on to write more novels and screenplays, including the 1977 sequel to Love Story, called Oliver's Story. Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Olivers Story is the sequel to the famous book Love Story, turned into a movie of the same name in 1978. ...

Writing & teaching after Love Story

He has published a number of scholarly works as well as teaching at the university level. He has acted as a visiting professor for the University of Munich, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College. He has written widely on Greek and Latin literature. His novel The Class (1985), a saga based on the Harvard Class of 1958, was also a bestseller, and also won literary honour in France and Italy^{[citation needed]}. Doctors was another New York Times bestseller from Segal. With approximately 48,000 students, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München or LMU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Incorporated as Trustees of Dartmouth College,[6][7] it is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution. ... Latin literature, the body of written works in the Latin language, remains an enduring legacy of the culture of ancient Rome. ... The Class is Erich Segals 6th novel, his best-loved work [], that came up in the year 1985. ... Jan. ...

Family

Segal has been married to Karen Marianne James since 1975; they have two daughters. Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Filmography

• 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)

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Bibliography

• The Comedy of Plautus (1968)
• Love Story (1970)
• Fairy Tales (1973)
• Oliver's Story (1977)
• Man, Woman and Child (1980)
• Millar, Fergus; Erich Segal (1984). Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects. Clarendon Press, 221 pages. ISBN 0198148585. 
• The Class (1985)
• Doctors (1988)
• Acts of Faith (1992)
• Prizes (1995)
• Only Love (1998)
• The Death of Comedy (2001)
• Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (2001)
• Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (2002)

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External links

• Erich Segal at the Internet Movie Database