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Love Story is a 1970 novel by American writer Erich Segal. Segal wrote a screenplay that was subsequently approved for production by Paramount Pictures. Paramount requested that Segal adapt the story into a novel as part of the film's marketing campaign.
- Erich Segal, Author of Love Story
- Back at Harvard
- Love Story
- Love Story, The Movie
- The Critics
- Little Richard
- Not Scholarly Enough
- The End
He was born June 16, 1937, in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of three boys. Even as a child, Erich Segal wanted to be a writer. His father, an orthodox rabbi, wouldn’t hear of it. He wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. So Erich studied Greek, Latin and Hebrew at Midwood High School. On afternoons he took the subway to the Jewish Theological Seminary, a...
Segal had been teaching classic literature at Yale, but in 1968, he took a sabbatical at Harvard to write a screenplay. He stayed at Dunster House, where he grew friendly with two college roommates who later became famous. Segal combined the roommates into the character of Oliver Barrett IV, the preppie jock with a poet’s heart. Oliver’s wealthy, p...
Love Storycame as a shock – not because of sex or nudity, there was none. But as a book, its publisher thought it might sell a few thousand copies. And as a film, its producer thought it might make a small profit. At first, Segal couldn’t interest anyone in his screenplay. Finally, his agent suggested he turn it into a book. Segal did just that. An...
As luck would have it, filming ended on Love Story, the movie, three days before Love Story, the book, hit the bookstores. Segal had finally sold his screenplay to Paramount Pictures. Model-turned-starlet Ali MacGraw had read the script and liked it. She was then married to Robert Evans, the head of Paramount, and persuaded him to produce it. He th...
From 1955 to 1975, Erich Segal ran the Boston Marathon. After Love Story, a spectator shouted at him, “Hey Segal, You run better than you write.” “The banality of Love Story makes Peyton Place look like Swann’s Way as it skips from cliche to cliche with an abandon that would chill even the blood of a True Romance editor,” wrote Newsweek. Love Story...
John Simon panned Love Story the film in the National Review, and then attacked Segal to his face on the Dick Cavett Show. Segal compared himself to the Greek playwright Euripedes, loved by the people but hated by the critics. Simon retorted Segal could choose to be a knave or a fool. “You chose the latter, deluded by your own lack of talent,” Simo...
Unlike Little Richard, Segal could not silence his critics. For the next decade or so, he continued to seek the limelight. Nothing came close to the success he had with Love Story. He worked as a sportscaster for the 1972 Olympics, wrote more novels, taught at various colleges and edited books about such classic authors as Aristophanes, Menander an...
In 1974, Segal met Karen James, a British children’s book editor. They married a year later and had two daughters, Francesca and Miranda. They lived in London. When he was in his 40s, Erich Segal contracted Parkinson’s disease. He continued to write and teach. On January 17, 2010, he died of a heart attack. * * * Coming soon in paperback. You can o...
Sep 2, 2020 · Love Story, by the end, had me tearing up, but not for the reasons I’d expected. It was so much more than a fiery relationship between two college students. It delved deep: breaches in society, broken families, marital relationship, and self-blame.
Complete summary of Erich Segal's Love Story. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Love Story.
Love Story in Erich Segal’s own words. “Actually, I have always felt this to be a book about a young couple, but even more about a father and son. When I wrote it America was in the midst of a total generation war (Vietnam, Woodstock, Haight Ashbury etc.).
Dec 16, 2020 · Segal had written Love Story as an original screenplay, as he’d already had experience from working on pictures like Yellow Submarine. The script didn’t sell at first, and an agent advised him to turn it into novel.
One critic argues that Segal employs dialogue to breathe life into "a spineless, mediocre, spiritless novel." The writing is concise, tightly woven, and well-structured,...
