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Written by Benjamin Johnson
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 17:47 |
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Erich Segal, the author of Love Story and professor of classics at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, passed away over the weekend. Below is an excerpt from an obituary (more like a remembrance) from the Spectator.
I have just returned from the funeral of my friend Erich Segal, who died suddenly last Sunday at the age of 72. Erich was best known for having written the novel Love Story, which was turned into a box-office smash movie. His talents were very much more prodigious than that. Not only did he write other novels and screenplays, including the Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine, but his main distinction was as a professor of Latin and Greek literature at Harvard, Yale and Princeton and the author of a number of scholarly books in that vein. He was also at one time a competitive distance runner (and TV commentator on the Olympic Games), which made the subsequent ravages to his body by Parkinsons Disease which trapped him for more than two decades – and which he bore with such stoicism and grace -- all the more tragic.
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