Eliot-and earned his doctorate in classics at Yale while teaching. “For the first six years of his life,” said the Los Angeles Times, “he lived with his ailing grandmother and grandfather because his parents’ apartment building did not allow children.” Ignoring his father’s wish to follow in his footsteps, Segal graduated from Harvard as class poet and Latin salutatory orator-a dual honor equaled only by T.S. Segal’s childhood as the son of a Brooklyn rabbi was lonely. But Love Story also derailed Segal’s career in academia, and its success, he once remarked, “totally ruined me.” It also became a blockbuster film with Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw, whose signature line-“Love means never having to say you’re sorry”-was a ’70s catchphrase. The weeper about a preppy Harvard boy who abandons his privileged world to marry a working-class Radcliffe girl-who then dies of cancer-sold 4.3 million copies in paperback. The 1970 novel Love Story was a mixed blessing for its author, Erich Segal.
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