Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and its film adaptation.
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.
Erich Segal was one of the noteworthy novelists from the United States, who used to write novels based on the romance and literature & fiction genres. Born as Erich Wolf Segal, he was very famous all over the world for his literature works.
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.
By writing Love Story, Erich Segal got what he wanted -- a smash hit of a movie and a best-seller. But he lost what he already had.
Erich Segal was born on 16 June 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Love Story (1970), Yellow Submarine (1968) and A Change of Seasons (1980). He was married to Karen Marianne James. He died on 17 January 2010 in London, England, UK.
Erich Segal, a Yale classics professor turned popular writer whose first novel, “Love Story,” became a staggering commercial success if not quite a critical one when it appeared in...
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.
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.
Erich Segal, a classics scholar who taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Oxford but who was best known for the novel “Love Story,” died Sunday in London.