Erich Segal

Erich Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, and Classics Professor. He was best known for writing the phenomenally successful novel Love Story (1970), and the hit major motion picture of the same name.

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About Erich

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Francesca Segal

Erich’s daughter Francesca Segal is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels, Welcome to Glorious Tuga (2024), The Awkward Age (2017) and The Innocents (2012), together with a memoir of NICU motherhood, Mother Ship (2019).

Her writing has won the Costa First Novel Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, a Betty Trask award, and been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Love Story

Can it really be 50 years since this touching cultural phenomenon was first published?

To celebrate, this special 50th anniversary edition of Love Story features a touching, new introduction by novelist Francesca Segal, the author’s daughter. It also includes a P.S. section with illuminating material about the book.

Books

Following the global success of Love Story, Erich Segal went on to write seven other romantic best sellers, and a charming and humorous children’s book. Photo by D. Jones

Scholarship

Professor Erich Segal taught at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and was a fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford – a classicist with an eye to the meaning and future of classics. His students at Yale felt, as the New York Times reported, that “Erich Segal does for Latin what Christ did for Lazarus.”