He has written widely on Greek and Latin literature. He has acted as a visiting professor for the University of Munich, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College.

He has published a number of scholarly works as well as teaching at the university level. The motion picture of the same name was the number one box office attraction of 1971.Įrich Segal went on to write more novels and screenplays, including the 1977 sequel to Love Story, called Oliver's Story. 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. 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. 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. In 1967, from the story by Lee Minoff, he wrote the screenplay for The Beatles 1968 motion picture, Yellow Submarine.

He now is teaching at Wolfson College, Oxford. He was a professor of Greek and Latin literature at Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. 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. Urn:oclc:473365412 Scandate 20100211034942 Scanner son of a rabbi, Segal attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn and traveled to Switzerland to take summer courses.

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