Poetic Obituaries: After graduating from Midwood High School,

he [Erich Segal] earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard, where he had the distinction of being both class poet and class Latin orator. He went on to earn master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, Mr. Segal taught classics at Yale. He continued to work as a classicist long after he became a successful novelist, holding visiting professorships at Princeton, Oxford, the University of London and elsewhere.

Mr. Segal first envisioned "Love Story" as a film.

from The New York Times: Erich Segal, 'Love Story' Author, Dies at 72
also Granta: In My Father's Footsteps

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